This blog is not meant as an accusation it is merely meant to illustrate the differences of teenage life between German teenagers and the lives of teenagers who were considered sub human by the Nazi regime. the best way to describe it is a parallel universe.
Brigitte Eicke’s teenager account of life in wartime Germany illustrates a complete different perspective on the Nazi years.(shown on the right in the picture below)
In many ways Brigitte was just a typical teenage girl, obsessed with her friends, first kisses with boys and trips to the cinema.
However as a resident of Berlin in the pre-WWII and WWII years , Brigitte was a first-hand witness to one of the most turbulent chapters of modern history and crucially, at the age of 15, she began keeping a diary.
Below are some excerpts of her diary.
‘There were some Jewish girls in my first ever class…
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