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This book is about teenagers, about the growing up pre-war pro-Nazi German youth, for whom the concepts of justice, honesty, and truth are completely distorted and completely distorted. These young people are blinded by "Nazi ideas" and do not realise that they pose a threat to the people around them and to humanity as a whole. Their parents are in on it - they easily allow themselves, their world, their thoughts to be taken over by the Nazi dictatorship and its propaganda formulations.
However, the novel does see a confrontation. The culmination is the murder of one student by another and the accusation of the third. The teacher, who, through his silence, is also guilty of the murder, nevertheless decides to tell the truth and defend it. After all, life without the truth has no meaning anyway."
God in Odion von Horvath's novel is the personification of truth, justice, and tolerance towards others. The Nazi youth live and grow up without truth, easily allowing themselves to be blinded by lies and deception, by National Socialist propaganda, which is constantly sounding loud slogans and appeals...