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Gerti's War by Lois Buchter
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Rated "PG" by the Author.
The true story of a 14 year-old in Germany during WWII and her fight to survive in the BDM.
Gerti lives in a small village in the northern part of the Black Forest. Her world changes as politics becomes part of her educational process, including joining the BDM (the female branch of the Hitler Youth) where she is required to attend meetings, work in service and training including heavy manual labor at a farm camp, Nanny to an officer's family, and even working in a factory.
Eventually she makes it to Berlin where she watches the devastation of Berlin fall during the last years of the war.
This novel helps answer the question of how Hitler was able to take control of the country. He did it by taking control of the children.
I love true stories like this. I have to assume that you got close to Gerti, perhaps by interviews in order to write this memoir of her time in World War II.
In this country, I have seen the young Republicans, become galvanized politically and are probably expected to be carrying out the wishes of the current Führer wanting to take over the country by force, if not by election.
She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
Gerti lives in a small village in the northern part of the Black Forest. Her world changes as politics becomes part of her educational process, including joining the BDM (the female branch of the Hitler Youth) where she is required to attend meetings, work in service and training including heavy manual labor at a farm camp, Nanny to an officer's family, and even working in a factory.
