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'''''Die Bertinis''''' (''The Bertinis'') is a semi-autobiographical book (from 1982) by Ralph Giordano about the lives of a poor family with a Jewish grandmother and an Italian grandfather in [[Nazi Germany]].
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=== Tropes in ''Die Bertinis'': ===
 
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Speckrolle (see below)
* [[Black Best Friend]]: The sons are friends with the son of a Liberian[[Liberia]]n consul, who's an outsider in [[Nazi Germany]] just like them. (His [[Real Life]] counterpart later became chief editor of the ''Ebony'' magazine!)
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Is the case with the neighbors of the Bertinis. The sounds they can hear through the thin walls allow the conclusion that the brothers are raping their sister.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Rudolph is not the biological father of Lea.
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* [[Fat Bastard]]: One of the teachers (appropriately nicknamed "Speckrolle", 'roll of bacon') of Cesar and Roman Bertini, who's a radical nazi and works hard to make his class "free of Jews".
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Rudolph Lehmberg
* [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Averted, if not inverted. Roman goes to a whore, who takes the ring he inherited from his grandfather as payment.
* [[Informed Judaism]]: Mother Lea and grandmother Recha are technically Jews, but don't care much for their religion. Unfortunately, [[The Nazis]] also persecute Jews who don't care much for their culture/religion.
* [[Likes Older Women]]: Roman Bertini with his neighbor Erika Schwarz, who'll help them later, being the main example of this.
* [[The Mentally Disturbed]]: During the war, grandma Emma loses her sanity.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: One Gestapo man who's only known as "Melone" (bowler hat). {{spoiler|Eventually killed.}}
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: "Speckrolle"
* [[The Series]]: Made by German TV.
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