Projekt 1065 (book)

Projekt 1065 is a World War II novel written by Alan Gratz, and published in 2016. The book is from the perspective of a boy named Michael, who is a member of the Hitler Youth. His dad is the Irish ambassador in Berlin, who is secretly a spy for the Allies, along with Michael's mother.

Plot Overview

The book follows the perspective of a 13 year old boy in the Hitler Youth named Michael. He is Irish and his dad is the Irish ambassador living in Berlin. One day, he was assigned, a long with his group, to find a British Royal Air Force pilot who was flying over Germany. Michael finds him first and hides him so the others can't find him, and later, tells his parents about it. His parents are spies for the Allies who are giving information to England. The British pilot, named Simon, is Jewish, and is now hiding in the Irish Embassy along with a library of books that are banned in Nazi Germany. At his school, Michael knows a boy named Fritz, whose father works on blueprints for airplanes, specifically one used by the military. Fritz brought the plans for a plane with a jet engine instead of a propeller to school and showed Michael. Then, Michael goes home and draws out the blueprint from memory, as he has a photographic memory. He later gets into Fritz's house to look at the other blueprints and he goes home to draw those. Both Fritz and Michael want to join a specific branch of the Senior Hitler Youth that is essentially like a junior Gestapo. He and Fritz both trained with eachother to overcome fears and weakness. And they both got in. But, Fritz began to distance himself from Michael, because the SS-Obersturmführer had assigned Fritz to a mission to assassinate a Dutch physicist.

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