''Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi'' is a 2000

young adult literature Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as family dysfunction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. It is characterized by simpler world build ...

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by German author David Chotjewitz, translated into English by

Doris Orgel Doris Orgel was an Austrian-born American children's literature author. She was born Doris Adelberg in Vienna, Austria on February 15, 1929. In the 1930s she fled Vienna with her parents due to her Jewish descent. She lived in New York City and ...

. The first US edition was published in 2004 by

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. The novel is set in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

, Germany in flashback and forward between 1945 at the end of

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and in the 1930s, during the rise of the

Nazi Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...

party. It deals with the effects of

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on two friends. It has been cited in 16 award lists, including as a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book.

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