Well that is good to know! Thanks everyone. It was "the Book Thief" and I almost didn't read it because the start of it seemed strange. But after I got used to the way the story was told I really enjoyed it. Here is the best quote I read about this book:
"What a strange way of telling such a story! Death is like a dear old grandmother telling a lovely story, but the story isn't lovely but awful. There are some beautiful people in the story, but a lot of horrible things are going on. All these awful things are told in a way that it makes them light and bearable and beautiful. The style did bother me every now and then, but on the other hand it made me go on and on in a book that I probably otherwise wouldn't have want to finish (I normally don't like books about WWII or war in general). Halfway through the book I suddenly realized that this for me was the first book I read about WWII written from the perspective of 'ordinary' germans, living in Nazi Germany. It makes you realize once more that it is not all black and white... there are lot of good people who just don't know how to stop evil things from happening.

I did love Liesel, Rudy, Max and Rosa... and not to be forgotten Ilsa... but I really, really love Hans.... "