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"Flying a Flag for Hitler" tells the story of the young Elsbeth Emmerich mushrooming up in Nazi Germany during World War II. This is a wonderful elfin scrap book in writing by Elsbeth herself.

Of how her Daddy against your will goes off to war to fracas and ne'er comes pay for from the covered wastelands of Leningrad. Of how her mother loses her job as an athletic's instructor because she refuses to secure the gathering. Of her how her grandparent is frequently taken away by the Gestapo for not winged the swastika flag.

What specially affected me was how related her reminiscences are compared to my own mother's, as Elsbeth was evacuated from the town to the country, right as my mother was from Liverpool to North Wales. The photographs Elsbeth shows us of herself in conservatory are near one and the same to the ones I have of my parent from the slowly nineteen thirties.

I chiefly saved the day they were last but not least conquered/invaded/liberated by the Americans extremely afoot. They had been told they would be punished and colourful. Elsbeth and her male sibling and sisters, frightened of what was around to happen, hid in an old wash tub. Her oral communication classify what happened subsequent far recovered than mine ever could.

"I became so content and entirely comforted and exhilarated when I accomplished that the Americans were not "the enemy" as I had been taught, but average quality beings, genial and high-minded. No one was beingness iridescent and no one was someone tortured. I didn't have to pray for my mother or sisters' lives. I cannot call to mind of all time emotion happier or more than alleviated than I did after the Americans came to our minuscule settlement."

This is a awesome littler volume. I have publication hundreds of books active the Second World War, some reality and fiction, and I have no wavering in recommending this one.

Flying a Flag for Hitler, My adolescence in Nazi Germany by Elsbeth Emmerich. ISBN: 034090268X