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During the Second World War, a young German girl, a member of the Hitler Youth, follows her parents into occupied Amsterdam. As she witnesses the hardships of wartime life—starvation, separation from loved ones—and the looming danger of gas chambers, she begins to understand that the war is more than a struggle for national pride and destiny. Her perspective shifts as she confronts the harsh realities of occupation and the personal costs of conflict.
First publish date: 1975
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Hilda Van Stockum
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