Description: The story of a child growing up in the shadow of war. A story of terror, separation, uncertainty and hope. Elsbeth was only five years old when World War II broke out, but she soon began to understand how the war would affect her: coping with food shortages, moving from house to house to avoid the air raids and having to get used to the pain of a missing father who was fighting at the front. Alongside these dramatic events she tells of ordinary family life: celebrations; going shopping (being forced to give the Nazi salute to shopkeepers) and school days. A fascinating autobiographical account coupled with unique photographs taken by Elsbeth's father at the front, make My Childhood in Nazi Germany an inimitable insight into life in wartime Germany.