Foster fatherland

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"On a visit to Germany in 1934, Norah Briscoe became captivated by National Socialism, so much so that two years later she entrusted her six-year-old son Paul to a German foster family. When war was declared in September 1939, Paul was left stranded in an alien country, while his mother found herself a job as a typist in the Ministry of Supply and attempted to smuggle secret information to the Nazis. She was entrapped by MI5 and imprisoned for treason." "In this memoir of a wartime childhood, Paul Briscoe recreates his unique experiences in Nazi Germany. Taken in by a shopkeeping family who accepted him as their own flesh and blood, he soon came to think of himself as German rather than English. He joined in a raid on a synagogue and was cast as a typical German youth in a propaganda film eulogizing the Fatherland. Shortly before his tenth birthday, he proudly enrolled in the Hitler Youth. He longed to fight for his country and die a glorious death for the Fuhrer, but it was not to be." "On his return to England in 1945 -leaving behind the German family he had grown to love - he was confronted with a mother he did not recognize in a country whose language he could no longer speak."--BOOK JACKET.