Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi Mildred L Batchelder Honor Book (Awards)
This book was published by: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books; October 12, 2004
This is a nonfiction book about Daniel . This book is appropriate for 7th grade and up.
In 1933, Daniel and Armin are wildly enthusiastic about the Nazis' rise to power. Both boys are eager to join the Hitler Youth, despite their parents' opposition. Daniel is horrified when his parents reveal that his mother is Jewish. He is furious with her for being Jewish, with his father for marrying her and with himself for being someone considered only half human according to the Aryan doctrine. While Daniel's father insists his status as a decorated World War I hero will protect his family, his mother urges her husband to emigrate.
This story would be appropriate for teaching about Germany, WWII, and Nazis.
This story gave an interesting point of view to what it was like to be in Germany and a Nazis. This is a perspective I had never considered, nor understood.
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