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My story is called A Jewish Soldier In Hitler's Army. This story is written by Georg Rauch, he ended up marring later on after the war and his wife is the one who translates the story. At the beginning the story tells you of his training. When we first actually start the story he is in the office of a commanding officer he is in this place because he was told he was going to be sent off to war, he thought he would get out of going because his grandmother was a practicing Jew pg 4. But instead of being let go they sent him to the front. After it talks about this we head to his child hood. We learn that his mom has Jews hiding in the hidden rooms in their attic pg 19. We learn that he is really good at Morris code and other things like …show more content…
It reminded me how much I love to read war books. One thing that I really liked about this book was that it included the letters he sent home to his family. I liked that he included every detail of what was going on, like when he talked about that the his commanding officer allowed him to "check for broken lines" when he was actually looking for food. I liked that he had his wife translate it, I just thought that was cool that she was able to help him with his life story. I thought he was very trusting when he said that he was open with telling people he was part Jew. I liked it when he explained what things were after he talked about them. When he started talking about how not all of the German soldiers were actually really German it made me realize that Hitler actually did have power in a lot of places. I enjoyed hearing when he talked about when he was in the prison camps and he told what it was like in the prison camps. The thing I didn't like about the story was that when he got a letter from home he didn't show it like he did when he sent letters home. Another thing I didn't really like was that he didn't go further into his life after the war. I also didn't like that they didn't go back to talk about how the Jews were doing in his attic. Besides all that I didn't really have anything that made it so I didn't like the story. One of the parts I thought was really cool was when the tanks were coming towards them and he remembered his training about digging the hole, that part was really cool. Another part that was really interesting was when he was in the hospital getting special treatment, and then the secret service asked him to become a spy for them. The worst part was when he started to get really sick, but you knew he was going to live because in the book he hadn't married yet and it said his wife is the one who translated the book from German. Another thing I didn't really like was that parts of it were in

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