The Broken House of Horst Krüger is a chronicle of his youth in Hitler's Germany. 

He grew up in a suburb of Berlin. His parents and neighbors lived a normal, non-politicized life, believed in God, and obeyed the laws. However, they gradually became fascinated and poisoned by the promises of Nazism. 

How did this happen? Krüger was "a typical son of innocent Germans who never became Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do what they did."

The book was published in 1966, tearing the veil of silence for the first time, revealing difficult truths about the wounded nation of Germans. It went out of circulation for decades, but was reissued in 2019 and subsequently translated into many languages, achieving great success.