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Puppilein (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher: River Bridge Books
Published: Oct 11 2025
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Puppilein
by Maureen J. Olson
In 1944 Munich, a young girl named Clara comes of age in a nation unraveling under Hitler's rule. Once proud of her German heritage and her father's courage, Clara slowly begins to see the world around her change-neighbors disappearing, Jewish families vanishing, and the comforting hum of her father's radio shop replaced by fear and silence.
As war tightens its grip, Clara's father Paul is drafted to fight for a cause he no longer believes in. When his letters suddenly stop arriving, Clara and her mother fear the worst-that he has deserted the army or met a terrible fate. But what Paul has truly done, and the secret he carries, will change Clara's understanding of courage, conscience, and love forever.
Inspired by true events and family history, Puppilein traces one Bavarian family's struggle to hold onto decency and hope during the darkest years of World War II. Told through the voice of a child growing up under the shadow of tyranny, the novel paints an extraordinary portrait of innocence challenged by ideology-and of a father's quiet defiance that teaches his daughter the meaning of moral strength.
Through vivid scenes drawn from real German history, Maureen J. Olson explores how ordinary people were swept up, silenced, and tested by the Nazi regime-and how one girl's love, faith, and memory became a testament to truth.
Puppilein is a moving, heart-wrenching story of conscience, family, and survival-told from a German perspective rarely heard, yet deeply human and unforgettable.
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