In the compelling memoir Hidden Beneath the Thorns, Ingeborg Tismer
shares her fascinating journey of what it was like to be an
ordinary German citizen during the Nazi regime.
As told to her daughter, Gabriele Quinn, Ingeborg provides a
glimpse into the world of a young woman who grew up on her
grandparents' farm with a pacifist mother and rigidly strict
father, who in order to put bread on the table, was coerced into
joining Hitler's private army, the SA. Interposed with historical
chronicles, Ingeborg relays how at the age of ten, she joined the
branch of Hitler youth for girls, thrilled to march to the beat of
Nazi drums. But Ingeborg's grandparents resisted the Nazis whenever
possible and hid Jewish families in a simple hillside dugout aided
by Russian laborers placed on their farm. At the end of the war,
Ingeborg and the remainder of her family were forced to live within
dusty piles of broken bricks, sickly smells, and hungry survivors
in the remnants of post-war Berlin.
Ingeborg's story chronicles how Adolf Hitler was able to seize
and mold an entire people into a machine of madness and how the
sanity of the outside world finally brought it all to an end.
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