![]() Inspired by real events, this fascinating novel sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Nazi agenda and movingly portrays a young girl's struggle to hold on to her identity and her hope in the face of a regime intent on destroying both. She is given a new name, Eva, and trained to become the perfect German citizen, to be the hope of Germany's future-and to forget she was ever a Czech girl named Milada. Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun 6 February 1912 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler.Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.She began seeing Hitler often about two years later. There, she is told she fits the Aryan ideal: her blond hair and blue eyes are the right color her head and nose, the right size. Then the Nazis take Milada away from her family and send her to a Lebensborn center in Poland. Milada, eleven years old, the fastest runner in school. ![]() After all, she is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her beloved Babichka. ![]() Always." Milada promises, but she doesn't understand her grandmother's words. Wolf’s novel tells the story of a young Lidice girl named Milada, who is taken from her family during the Nazi raid on her town and, saved by her blond hair and blue eyes, she is brought to a. ![]() On the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia, Milada's grandmother says, "Remember, Milada. Wolf’s Someone Named Eva, is a story that I would have appreciated all the more at that time, though it affected me deeply even now. ![]()
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