"The Inventory is an account of the effects of Nazi paranoia upon every segment of German society. Gila Lustiger weaves together the tales of ordinary people swept up in a society where brutal oppression and extermination are everyday events.".

"Amid the routine of daily life - with its flirtations and quarrels, longings and disappointments - the mechanism of persecution spares no one: A renowned opera singer is savagely beaten for suspicion of homosexuality; a mother writes to the Ghetto Administration for a good deal on penknives confiscated from Jewish deportees; a student is tortured by the Gestapo for a vague association with the Young Socialist Workers; a husband files for divorce when his wife shops at a Jewish-owned store.

Intersecting stories of common citizens, both sinned against and sinning, reveal uncanny, entwined relationships in a nation where no one remains untouched by suspicion and fear, where respectable housewives become informants and saviors, and children become protectors and abusers."--BOOK JACKET.