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Caging Skies. Written by Christine Leunens Review by Larry Zuckerman. Like many Viennese boys of the late 1930s, Johannes Betzler joins the Hitler Youth, in which he takes great pride, and swallows the Nazi message whole, to his parents’ dismay. When the war comes, he figures out that they’re hiding a young Jewish woman, Elsa, behind a ...
In the end Johannes tells Elsa that Berlin has been divided in 2 by the allies and she find out what he's really been up to. This was in the summer of 1948. THREE YEARS after the end of the war and the fall of Vienna to the allies. It's sickening. The ending is very anti climactic after this reveal.
7 Νοε 2019 · Caging Skies by Christine Leunens is a novel about Hitler’s Third Reich without equal. It is seen through the eyes of Viennese 12-year-old Johannes Betsler, a devout member of the pre-teen Jungvolk and later the teenage Hitler Youth.
Early in the war, Johannes’ new life as a Nazi soldier is cut short when he’s badly injured and facially disfigured. Confined to his house, he discovers a young Jewish woman, Elsa, hidden behind a false wall in the guest room. That’s how he knows his parents are harbouring an enemy of the state.
6 Αυγ 2019 · Johannes Betzler is a child in Vienna when Hitler comes to power and Austria votes for annexation. In school, he learns that “our race, the purest, didn’t have enough land” but that “the Führer had trust in us, the children; we were his future.” Johannes joins the Jungvolk and, once he’s old enough, the Hitler Youth.
“Christine Leunens’ novel Caging Skies begins in Austria at the time of its annexation to the German Reich. Narrator Johannes Betzler is [. . .] a boy who innocently embraces the Nazi dream. He becomes a member of the Hitler Youth but soon makes a devastating discovery: his parents are hiding Elsa, a young Jewish woman, behind a false wall ...
31 Μαΐ 2020 · Caging Skies is the story of an ordinary man who commits an unforgiveable act in the name of love. Naturally, there’s also a movie version. The novel is framed as a confession, a sort of...
