Book Report On White Rose Black Forest By Eoin Dempsey

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The book “White Rose Black Forest” by Eoin Dempsey is set in the Black Forest in Germany during World War II. The main characters are Franka Gerber and John Lynch. Almost everyone that Franka is close to has been killed by the Nazi’s. One day she stumbled upon an unconscious man in a luftwaffe uniform with two broken legs laying on the ground. She dragged him home and took care of him for the next couple of months. Franka was a part of the White Rose which was a group in Germany that went against the Nazi’s. The situation Franka is in is not ideal and gets her in a lot of trouble. The White Rose is an anti-Nazi group in Germany. In the book Franka Gerber was in it along with her friends Sophie and Hans who died because of it. The White Rose was a real thing that was formed during World War II. The White Rose lasted from 1942-1943. Frankas friends Sophie and Hans were real people. In the book Franka said that someone turned them and Sophie and Hans confessed and they both got killed. It didn't go into that much detail. Sophie and Hans actually did some really risky things. They wrote things like "Down With Hitler", "Hitler Mass Murderer", "freedom", and drew crossed-out swastikas while there were police around. They got caught and arrested and ended up being guillotined. This element of the book was …show more content…

They only read banned books and only listed to banned radio stations. One of the books that John was reading was “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria. The stations that were banned were foreign ones that would state all the bad things happening in Germany. They often listened to Swiss and British stations. All of Erich Marias books were illegal to read in Germany during that time so that is historically accurate. There are also a lot of other banned authors including Karl Marx. The only radio stations allowed were ones that supported the Nazis. This aspect of the book was also historically