Here are some descriptions of some places mentioned in the
story or mentioned in the letters written by the real German girls. It is worth
considering these places, both as they were then and as they are now, as this
gives a greater sense of what it might have been like for these young girls
growing up in Nazi Germany.
A real puzzle is that Hitler constantly argued for more
Lebensraum - “ living room” for
Germans. Yet they had many wide open
spaces. It was also quite difficult sometimes, for those who lived in the
countryside, where bombs were scarcer and food more plentiful, at first at
least, really to realise that they were at war.
