Josef Jaeger
Josef Jaeger
Josef Jaeger
Jere' M Fishback
Josef Jaeger turns thirteen when Adolf Hitler is appointed Germany's new Chancellor. When his mother dies, Josef is sent to Munich to live with his uncle, Ernst Roehm, the openly-homosexual chief of the Nazi brown shirts. Josef thinks he's found a father-figure in his uncle and a mentor in his uncle's lover, streetwise Rudy, and when Roehm's political connections land Josef a role in a propaganda movie, Josef's sure he's found the life he's always wanted. But while living in Berlin during the film's production, Josef falls in love with a Jewish boy, David, and Josef begins questioning his uncle's beliefs. Complications arise when an old friend of his mother's tells Josef that his mother was secretly murdered by the SS due to her political beliefs, possibly on Roehm's order. Josef confides in his Hitler Youth leader, Max Klieg. Klieg admits he knows a few things, but he won't share them with Josef till the boy proves himself worthy of a confidence. Conflicting beliefs war within Josef until he must decide where his true loyalties lie, and what he really believes in.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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The novel Josef Jaeger, by Jere' M. Fishback, is about an adolescent homosexual Nazi during the years while Adolf Hitler was becoming the head of Germany. In the beginning of this story, Josef, the main character, mother dies. Josef,being a child made out of wedlock, and never knowing his father, is sent to live with his openly homosexual Nazi uncle in Munich, Germany. His uncle has a very hot temper and is quick to judge every move made by Hitler, leaving him in some hot lava with his fellow Nazis.

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