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Gerta: A Novel
Written by Kateřina TučkováVéronique Firkusny (trans.)
Review by K. M. Sandrick
The upheaval begins for Gerta Schnirch in the first year of secondary school when her beloved art teacher is let go and she is pushed into the League of German Girls.
Gerta saramati biography books
It is 1939 in Brno, in the Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. War comes to Gerta at first in small ways: her German father banning her and her Czech mother from speaking their tongue, her brother excelling in the Hitler Youth.
Ideologies change: The push to liberate “pure Germans” from oppression and provide them a living space shifts to ridding occupied territories of Jewish Bolsheviks and de-Germanizing populations. The miracle weapons meant to rescue besieged Germans outside the Reich become weapons of retribution, and targeted bombing runs are replaced by total blitzkriegs.
Liberation is no release for Gerta and others like her.
Germans are expelled from Czechoslovakia, allowed to take only w