Chocolate Cake with Hitler tells the remarkable story of Helga Goebbels, twelve-year-old daughter of the Nazi Party’s head of propaganda, who spent the last ten days of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler.
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Reviews
An extraordinary tale - one of the best debut novels of 2010
Told with a child-like innocence, it is a poignant insight into the dying days of the Third Reich and the claustrophobic existence of those who stayed behind with 'Uncle Leader'
Skilfully avoiding both sentimentality and sensationalism, Craigie has written an affecting and unusual exploration of the last days of Hitler
Her poised style is powerful and stripped of sentimentality, and she skilfully enters the psyche of a young girl.