• Director: Agnieszka Holland
  • Release Year: 1990
  • Production Country: Germany, France, Poland
  • Language: German, Russian, Polish, Hebrew

Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa Europa)

Description

A young Jewish boy in a Soviet orphanage tells invading German soldiers that he, too, is German and, after a series of coincidences, manages to convince the troop he is their good luck charm. The commander sends him to an elite Hitler Youth school, where his masquerade becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.

Themes

World War II (1939 – 1945), Holocaust (Jewish), Hitler Youth, Third Reich (1933 – 1945), Primary sources, Literature, Solomon Perel (b. 1925), Kristallnacht "Night of Broken Glass" (9 – 10 November 1938), Genocides, Operation Barbarossa (22 June 1941 – 5 December 1941), Naziism, Gestapo, Childhood, Children in war, Children soldiers, Homosexuality, Identity