MAX by Sarah Cohen-Scali, translated by Penny Hueson.
Starting in 1936 the Nazis began a program to ensure the continuation of the superior Aryan race by enlisting perfect young woman to have babies "on demand"; the program was called Lebensborn. Max was one of the first of those babies and recounts his first 10 years (starting in the womb) in the first person. We see what a perfect little Nazi he is until his world enlarges and he encounters a Jewish boy posing as a young Nazi cadet and hears thoughts other than those prescribed. A powerful look at indoctrination that seems thorough but in which there is a small glimmer of hope about the humanity underneath.
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