Strawberries with the Führer

Book excerpt: Helga Tiscenko was born in Germany in 1929, the daughter of parents who were committed members of the National Socialist Party and a father who rose to the rank of general in the Waffen SS. In this book she tells the story of her childhood in pre-war Germany and of her expieriences during the war and the final days of the Third Reich. After the war, as a sixteen year old branded as a 'Nazi brat, ' she had to come to terms with its aftermath. She follows with her account of emigrating to New Zealand and life in a hydro-electric township in the South Island.