In the Garden of Beasts

The author picked a great set of people to write about. The father isn't all that impressed with Germans and the daughter is in bed with a variety of ranking Nazi's, Russian pre-KGB... Between the two you get a great mix of perspectives. And the time period written about was educational.

I knew the war ended around 1945 but didn't know Hitler was put in office in 1933, and was put there by people believing they could control him. That Goebels was incredibly over weight.