A worldwide success in a new light. This story has moved generations: In the spring of 1945, a three-year-old boy is smuggled into the Buchenwald concentration camp. When the SS finds him, death is as certain for him as it is for his protectors. Against all reason, two inmates hide the child, even though this jeopardizes the preparations of the illegal camp committee for an uprising. The boy's survival becomes a symbol of the inmates' will to live. The novel was inspired by true events. However, it was received as a factual report, and the story of the child's rescue became a symbol of the anti-fascist resistance struggle in East Germany. What was not known until now: Apitz originally portrayed the role of the communists in a much more conflicted manner. "In 'Naked Among Wolves,' simple humanity triumphs." Marcel Reich-Ranicki.