Aan het einde van de oorlog

Hitler turns fifty-six on 20 April 1945, the day Ernst, an eleven-year-old boy, goes missing close to a concentration camp. His father, Karl Zehlendorf, is the camp's SS deputy commander. Reinhart, Ernst's older brother, insists he last saw him by the deep and dangerous lake where the two had gone to fish. Gunfire from the advancing armies is audible in the distance, and nobody in or around the camp doubts the war is nearly over as Karl begins to search. In the space of one day the story moves between thirty-one people, guards and prisoners among them, many of them young and brought up on Nazi propaganda.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

634 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2025 by Thomas Rap

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789400408210 (original)