Hitler's Son by Alfons Heck is an autobiographical account of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 from his perspective as a member of the Hitler Youth. Heck's autobiography is full of emotional treatises and memories of his childhood. Published in 1985, the book is aimed at an adult audience. The overall theme focuses on repentance, the overwhelming power of propaganda, and the resulting passion produced by NSDAP indoctrination. Using this theme as a guide, Heck argues that Nazi propaganda was highly efficient and produced an indoctrinated generation that was consumed by Aryan and Third Reich superiority until Germany's defeat in 1945. Heck organized his book chronologically, which reinforces the narrative. It has moments of weakness. due to the time between Heck's childhood and the time it was published. But it also has many more strengths than weaknesses; the first-person perspective immerses you in the novel, the emotional appeal tugs at the heartstrings. The reader rides and feels Heck's first steps toward loyal Nazism and his devastation at the failure and deceptions committed by his party. Heck's admissions of his experience with the Hitler Youth give the autobiography a unique perspective. A Child of Hitler openly highlights how the Nazi regime victimized not only Jewish men and women, homosexual or asexual citizens, but also how it devastated and destroyed an entire generation of children. Childhood was revoked and the burden of war was placed squarely on the shoulders of boys and girls just like Heck. This develops a new understanding of World War II that is often not disclosed. Addressing Nazi Germany from an insider's perspective, Heck develops an argument against propaganda about children. It shows that the blank slates of childhood should not be blackboards for politics and that children should be exactly what they are: children. While the text certainly has dark undertones, it would serve as an excellent foil for high school readers of Night. That said, A Child of Hitler is still a must-read for adults and college students regardless of their age, poignant and direct, it provides a perspective that all people should have when trying to understand World War II and the rise and fall fall of Nazism.