Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just
steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a
seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating,
and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under
an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality
of war -- and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime --
aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the
Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
In May 1945, an eleven-year-old Hunt watched American troops
occupy Hitler's mountain retreat, signaling the end of the Nazi
dictatorship and World War II. As the Nazi crimes began to be
accounted for, many Germans tried to deny the truth of what had
occurred; Hunt, in contrast, was determined to know and face the
facts of her country's criminal past.
On Hitler's Mountain is more than a memoir -- it is a portrait
of a nation that lost its moral compass. It is a provocative story
of a family and a community in a period and location in history
that, though it is fast becoming remote to us, has important
resonance for our own time.
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