本书作者彼得·西施罗夫斯基通过对多名纳粹子女的深度访谈，试图从不同的视角向读者展现，战后纳粹家庭的真实状况以及纳粹子女的内心世界。通过纳粹子女自己的语言，深入探讨了带着“原罪”出生的他们，如何面对沉默的父母，如何接受知道真相的自己，如何看待上一代的罪恶，以及如何在与父母价值观相悖的现实世界中生存。

Ian Kershaw's "Hitler" allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw brilliantly conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.