![]() ![]() K818A1 : Mischling, second degree : my childhood in Nazi Germany / Ilse Koehn with a. This type of simplification makes for bad history-and a flat read. K8185w : Where the kissing never stops / by Ron Koertge. Instead, the dilemmas faced by these characters come across to the reader as crystal-clear choices between good and evil. Neither subtlety nor insight plays a part in these proceedings: Williams doesn't suggest the attractions of the Hitler youth groups or allow for the range of attitudes within these groups, described so persuasively in such memoirs as Ilse Koehn's Mischling, Second Degree or Hans Peter Richter's I Was There. As Korinna weighs the possibility of turning her parents in, her best friend, Rita, begins to grow suspicious and starts laying a deadly trap for the Rehmes and their clandestine guests. When she discovers that two Jews, a mother and young daughter, are hiding in her very own house, she is horrified at her parents' calumny. Don't you think so?") and rabidly anti-Semitic. At 13, Korinna Rehme is just like the other members of her girls' youth group: besotted with the Fuhrer ("Hitler is the most wonderful man, Mother. ![]() Melodrama substitutes for conflict in this heavy-handed novel set in Nazi Germany. ![]()
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