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Starred Review on January 1, 2020 | Middle To High School
Gr 7–10—As young children living in Germany during the uprising of the Nazi party, Gertrud Kühlem, Jean Jülich, and Fritz Theilen resisted joining the Hitler Youth. They grew up in Cologne, Germany, in the aftermath of World War I and the Depression; their fathers were unemployed, there was not enough money to buy food, and there was a general sense that life was getting scarier as the Nazi Party came to power in the 1930s. Gertrud's parents, who were Communists, hated Hitler. Fritz's parents were members of the Social Democratic Party and did not...Log In or Sign Up to Read More