On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood

Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden, Germany, Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. However, the Nazis were in power and she and her family lived just steps from Adolf Hitler’s alpine retreat. In her fascinating memoir On Hitler’s Mountain, Hunt tells the story of an ordinary family living under the Third Reich.

After the end of World War II, as Nazi crimes began to be accounted for, many Germans wanted to bury the past; Hunt, in contrast, was determined ...