A groundbreaking study of what happened to children--of all nationalities and religions--living under the Nazi regime. Drawing on a wide range of new sources, Witnesses of War reveals the stories of life under the Third Reich as never before. As the Nazis overran Europe, children were saved or damned according to their race. Turning to an untouched wealth of original material--school assignments; juvenile diaries; letters; and even accounts of children's games--Nicholas Stargardt breaks stereotypes of victimhood and trauma to give us the gripping individual stories of the generation Hitler made.

Nicholas Stargardt, the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother, was born in Melbourne and brought up in Australia, Japan, and England. He is a professor of modern European history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.