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Simone Arnold Liebster

Facing the Lion (Abridged Edition): Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

Grammaton Press, LLC (Jan 15, 2006)

9780967936697

| Paperback

192 pages | 108 x 170 mm

$ 138.50 | Value: $ 11.89

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Dewey 920

Subject

Alsace (France)
Children
Girls
Jehovah's Witnesses
World War, 1939-1945

Plot

Simone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirlspirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials recruit for the Hitler Youth. Simone'ss family refuses to hail Hitler as Germany'ss savior. They are Jehovah'ss Witnesses, and they reject Nazi racism and violence. The Nazi Lion makes them pay the price.