In My Brother's Shadow

{{short description|2005 novel by Uwe Timm}}

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| image = In My Brother's Shadow.jpg

| author = Uwe Timm

| translator = Anthea Bell

| isbn = 978-0374103743

| pub_date = 2005

| country = Germany

| publisher = Farrar Straus & Giroux

| published = 2003 (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) (de)

| name = In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS (Am Beispiel meines Bruders)

| preceded_by = Morenga

}}

In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS (German: Am Beispiel meines Bruders) is the title of a semi-autobiographical novel by Uwe Timm. The English translation by Anthea Bellhttps://search.worldcat.org/fr/title/in-my-brothers-shadow-a-life-and-death-in-the-ss/oclc/56876842?page=citation; https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/timm-uwe-1940 was published in 2005.

The plot, based on Timm's own experience living through World War II, tells the story of the protagonist's brother, an SS corporal killed in Russia in 1943.