Siegfried

After renowned Dutch author Rudolf Herter states in an interview that it may be only through fiction that the uniquely evil figure of Adolf Hitler can be truly comprehended, an elderly couple approaches him following a reading. The pair reveal that as domestic servants in Hitler's Bavarian retreat in the waning years of the war, they were witness to the jealously guarded birth of Siegfried - the son of Hitler and Eva Braun. For more than fifty years they have kept silent about the child they once raised as their own. Only now and only to Herter are they willing to reveal their astonishing story. A bracing meditation on the nature of evil and the burden of the past, Siegfried is one of Harry Mulisch's most thought provoking novels.