Siegfried

It is 1999 and Rudolf Herter, a celebrated Dutch author, has flown to Vienna at the Dutch embassy's invitation to present his work. A television interview veers off course and leaves him with the germ of a new piece on Hitler, a figure who has obsessed him for decades and whom ever more scholarship only renders more opaque. After a public reading an aged husband and wife approach him. In their flat, once he has sworn not to publish until they are dead, they confess they kept house for Hitler and Eva Braun at the Berghof, and share what they have concealed ever since.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

213 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Austria, 1999

First published

2001 by De Bezige Bij

Author's age

74 when first published

ISBN

9789023462156 (original)

9780670912711 (Viking, United Kingdom)

9780670032532 (Viking, United States)

9780142004982 (Penguin Books, United States)

9780141009148 (Penguin Books, United Kingdom)

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