Tilvist þessarar teiknimyndarsögu er svo fyndin að ég gæti ekki hafa búið þetta til því þetta er svo súrt:

Þessi saga er sannsögurleg og segir frá ævi Maria Anne Hirschmann og sagan er svo illa samsett og skrifuð að það er fáranlega fyndið að lesa þetta (að ég minnist nú ekki á að nafnið er nátla drep fyndið :P). Hér er nánari upplýsingar um söguna:

This is the true story of Maria Hirschmann, an orphaned Christian girl in Czechoslovakia, who got caught up in Hitler’s Germany — but eventually found her way out of it, renouncing Nazism and returning to her foster mother’s Christian faith.

How did Marie, nicknamed “Hansi,” become a Nazi? She won a scholarship to a Nazi school in Prague. Such an opportunity was scarcely dreamed of amidst the poverty she had grown up in. And so, it wasn’t ideology or hatred of Jews that drew her to the Hitler Youth at first. It was simply that she thought she was being offered the opportunity of a lifetime — to get an education.

The banality of this story is chilling, but also quite understandable. When I read this book ten years ago, I saw for the first time how ordinary people with basically good hearts got caught up in the Nazi machine. Hindsight is always 20-20, but when an event is taking place in our lives, we don’t always have the wisdom to make the right decisions.

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