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Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika
At that time I heard one of Hitler's many speeches over the radio. We listened to all of them, but that address was something special, given at one of the annual sport festivals for the Hitler youth. How that deep röst could send chills down my back!
'Hitler Youth, you are my youth," he said affectionately at the end. 'I believe in you and I claim you, for you are the Germany of tomorrow, MY Germany of tomorrow.'
Thousands of voices drowned out the rest of his words. Young voices responded the way we all felt. 'Heil! Heil! Seig Heil! Sieg Heil! Heil Hitler!' We could
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Chalkboard Champions
Sometimes individuals who have the most amazing personal stories become examples of remarkable educators. One such example is Maria Anne Hirschmann, a former Nazi ungdom leader who became an honored American educator.
Maria Anne Hirschmann, popularly known as Hansi, was born in Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. As an infant, she was abandoned and raised in a foster home. When Nazi troops invaded her country in , they travelled the countryside testing all the local children, even those who attended the little one-room school that fourteen-year-old Hansi attended. The child was selected to be sent to Prague to be trained as a Nazi ungdom leader. &#;For the first time, somebody actually chose me, &#; Hansi once remembered. &#;I was the poorest kid in the village, so I could not expect to go on to high school or college. Now I thought I had caught the rainbow.&#; Brainwashed, the youngster pledged her allegiance to Adolph Hitler. When Germany was defeated in WWII, Ha
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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Hitler: (Speaking in German)
Crowd: Sieg heil! Sieg heil! Sieg heil!&#;
John Fuller: Those are the sounds of a nation that was totally deceived, throwing itself at the feet of Adolf Hitler, who was eventually responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people. Today on Focus on the Family, we&#;ll hear from a woman who walked away from the Third Reich, and lived to tell about it. Your host is Focus president Jim Daly and I&#;m John Fuller.
Jim Daly: John, this is an amazing personal story that will take us back to World War II and the years preceding it. It&#;s the story of Maria Anne Hirschmann, whose nickname is, &#;Hansi.&#; She was just a preteen when Hitler&#;s tanks rolled into her native country of Czechoslovakia in , and I don&#;t wanna give her story away, but that&#;s where we&#;re headed. Hansi&#;s a former schoolteacher, a speaker and an author. She&#;s the mother of five, and grandmother of many. This is a powerful st