Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners

A history of modern Germany told not through the lives of its leaders, but its lawbreakers.

As Nelson Mandela said, “a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of Germany’s prisoners, and thereby shines new light on Germany itself. The story begins at the end of the Second World War, in a defeated country on the edge of collapse, in which orphaned and lost children are forced int...