My Memories of Berlin

About the Book

A vivid description of the author’s first seventeen years of life encompassing Hitler’s twelve-year regime. His Hitler Youth experience is typical for the average German boy of that time. His personal endurances are blended in with reports from the battlefield and the home front. Some of the Hitler Youth were chosen to be indoctrinated in the regime’s elite schools and lived a privileged life of state-sponsored higher education. As war brings more hardships and the nation finds itself defeated and exposed to Soviet barbarism, the Hitler Youth force keeps on fighting with tenacious fanaticism to self destruction. Those of them that survived the war felt utterly betrayed and disillusioned. Their fallen comrades being Hitler’s Last Victims.

About the Author

In 1957 the author settled in San Diego where he met his wife and married in 1958. He worked in a major hospital’s pharmacy as an intern. He started raising a family and in 1962 entered the real estate business. When he achieved some financial independence, he returned to his love for learning and continued his education. In 1977 he received his master’s degree in psychology and in 1979 earned his doctorate in clinical psychology. He became the coordinator in a chemical dependency center of a hospital. Today, at seventy-seven and retired, he finds great satisfaction as a writer and, with his wife of forty-nine years, enjoys family life with his children and grandchildren.