AUSLANDER

A chilling and thought-provoking thriller about a Polish orphan'ssubversion of Nazi ideals When Peter's parents are killed, he issent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to bemeasured and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He isVolksdeutscher: of German blood. With his blond hair, blue eyes, andacceptably proportioned head, he looks just like the boy on theHitler-Jugend poster. Someone important will want to adopt Peter. They do. Professor Kaltenbach is very pleased to welcome such a fine Aryanspecimen to his household. People will be envious. But Peter is not quitethe specimen they think. He is forming his own ideas about what he isseeing, what he is told. Peter doesn't want to be a Nazi, and so he isgoing to take a very dangerous risk. The most dangerous risk he couldpossibly choose to take in Berlin in 1942.