The Quest for Christa T. (1971) is Wolf's well-known autobiographical novel about growing up in times of conflict.

A Model Childhood (1983) is another autobiographical novel by Wolf that examines the effects of German fascism on the lives of those of Wolf's generation.

Diary of Anne Frank (1952) is the classic story of one Jewish girl's experience of World War II as recorded in the diary she kept while hiding in an attic.

Night (1960), by Elie Wiesel, is a harrowing personal memoir of being Jewish during the war.

German Boy: A Refugee's Story (2000), by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel and Stephen E. Ambrose, is the story, told through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, of a German family's escape from the Russians at the end of World War II.

Boy Soldier: A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight (2000), by Gerhardt B. Thamm, tells of...