Tomorrow Will Be Better: Surviving Nazi Germany

By Matt Valentine and Walter Meyer

How does a young German who has been a member of the Hitler Youth and has competed in Nazi-organized athletic competitions become, over the span of two years, an eighty-pound, tuberculosis-stricken... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826212174
• ISBN13: 9780826212177
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Compelling, informative memoir

This is an honest, unflinching memoir written by a Christian German who was sent to prison and later two Nazi concentration camps as a teenager for rebellious behavior during World War II. People interested in this subject and time period will appreciate the detail with which Meyer tells his story. He also does an excellent job of capturing the essence of his adolescent personality and outlook during those long-gone days. One editorial review complained that there was not enough explanation of how he felt at times (for example, while leaving his homeland, Germany, after the war), but his emotions at that point are self-explanatory to any reader who has been paying attention. For example, he was tortured and almost killed by the Nazi government of his "homeland", so by the time he left, he was not exactly sentimental about it. It is also fascinating to read about the outlook of his family members and friends; it gives the reader an idea of what Nazi Germany was like from an "Aryan" German perspective. The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis (Sandpiper) , Hitler Youth , Swing Kids , Sophie Scholl - The Final Days