""You are the nicest Nazi I ever met" was meant as a compliment for the author, but it was deeply offensive and ignorant. The comment became the motivation for rethinking her childhood during World War II and the chaotic post-war period. With their home in Berlin lost to bombs, her father in Poland, and both brothers in Hitler's army of teenagers, the family eventually relocated to the historic town of Celle which was flooded with refugees. More than fifty homeless occupants shared her grandmother's house with its two kitchens and two bathrooms" --Cover.