Interesting subject: an insider's look at what it was to be a member of the Hitler Youth. Unfortunately, this short autobiography becomes too quickly muddled and difficult to follow, leaving the reader apathetic to the real drama and heartbreak of the story's reality. I suspect this has something to do with the translation to English...the author's account obviously deserves a better treatment than it's getting here. A much larger, but more gripping novel, is HITLER's LAST COURIER which tells of a boy drafted into military service at the end of the war.

This book took too long to read and it was confusing.

I read this and it did not really seem so great. The book is an autobiogrophy of the author when he was in the Hitler youth Movement. It tells what he and his friend Heinz and Gunther went through while they were in the movement. The author and Hienz are enthusiastic about the movement but Gunther seems to always struggle through and Gunther was pressured into joining the movement because his family was poor and he did not want it seem like he was different from all the other boys. I gave it 4 stars because I learned alot of stuff from the book. I learned that you could lose your respect from the Hitler movement by doing anything that disobeyed, even if you didn't do it on purpose you would still lose respect. I learned that If you were near a jew, you'd get hurt. And I learned in the movement that you were expected to do everything no matter what, even if you had to go somewhere with your family you stll had to do your duties. But the book itself wasn't good but it was okay. Usually with autobiogrophies, you would feel the way the author feels but the way Hans Peter Richter wrote the book, I did not feel the passion as he did. I would have given this 3 stars but because I learned alot stuff, I thought it deserved an extra star.

Complete Book of Dwarf Chiclids by Hans Joachim Richter is quite a big, beautiful book. Full of photos, schemes and drawings it is quite disapointing when you read it. The marjority of books on dwarf chiclids focus on south american dwarf chiclids. This book goes further and bring some african species too, but in both south american and african chiclids there is an seriuos problem : lack ok essencial information. The book describes few species of chiclids, it gives basic info, but as a hobbyist, I think I would expect more of this beautiful book. I know it is hard to keep an book up to date, specially with some genus like Apistogramma, in witch new species are being described every day. One final observation : The author is an exellent photographer, his book has marvellous photos....if he could update this book with more info, it would be just great!

Fredrich
This book is all about a Jewish boy who is put through tourture just because he's a Jew.He has a very close friend the narrator who is not a Jew.The narrator tries and defends Fredrich from the anti Jews.In the novel there is alot of conflict.In the end i think it is a good book aiming to people at the age of 13+