A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marco Hofschneider (born Oct 18, 1969) is a German actor known for his biographical portrayal of Solomon Perel in the 1990 acclaimed (Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated) World War II film Europa Europa. (Note that Europa Europa is known as Hitlerjunge Salomon to most European audiences.) Since then, he has appeared in many German and British film and television programs. Hofschneider was born in Berlin, Germany. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Hofschneider, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.