5/24/2023 0 Comments The vanishing sky![]() ![]() The reader, like the doctors who try politely to tell her what she refuses to hear, knows this once-vibrant, intelligent young man who loved nature and laughter is now mentally disturbed and unlikely to recover. ![]() Since he’s thin, with no sign of physical injury, she decides that if she feeds him enough, he’ll get better. All she knows is that Max is coming home to Heidenfeld, their small, rural town, and that she’ll take care of him, as always.īut when Max steps off the train - and in succeeding days, when his strange behavior draws notice and gossip, as at church - Etta realizes something’s wrong with him. Etta doesn’t ask herself why, if the army is ready to conscript fifteen-year-old Georg, Max would be discharged. ![]() But at least her elder son, Max, is coming home to stay, after serving on the Eastern Front. Etta Huber, who has one teenage son with the Hitler Youth, Georg, prays for his safety, willing with all her heart that he’ll only be sent to build fortifications, not to fight. Yet the government-controlled radio continues to promise final, total victory, demanding ever-greater sacrifice. In 1945, Germany’s enemies are pulverizing the country with high explosives and pounding its armies from east and west. ![]()
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