<p>It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most "Aryan-shaped" heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi demonstration, Georg is smuggled out of Germany to war-torn London and then across enemy seas to Australia where he must forget his past and who he is in order to survive.</p><p>Hatred is contagious, but Georg finds that kindness can be, too.</p><p>The companion piece to <i>Hitler's Daughter</i>, <i>Pennies for Hitler</i> examines the life of a child during World War II, from a different perspective.</p>
