The Timepoint for this story, the darkest ages of the 20th century, the golden age of the Absolute Dictators. Our story starts in Stuttgart, Friday 3rd of March 1933, everything has to start somewhere. National socialists under the leadership of their fuehrer Adolph Hitler, ranting at the streets and singing "Jew blood will bleed" and other Anti-Semitic satirical ballads. The repression is harsh against Jews and dissidents, and human lives are very cheap.
Told from the average citizen's view, those shortcomings and others included in NSDAP's political agenda and repression caused for the average citizen.
This is their story during these dark years. Years of great suffering, sacrifice, and the strong will to survive, to every possible price. Times what tested people's strong will to survive.
In the Soviet Union, the repression is as hard under the leadership of the ruthless, and unpredictable Joseph Stalin. Two brutal dictators who, already during their lifetime earn their place in History books for brutal terror regimes.
And for all eternity are marked as two of the cruelest, most vicious killers ever lived. Evil Men; with blood from millions of men. women and children at their hands. In short words, the age of terror in Europe. This is the bitter battle against these anti-democratic powers in Europe.

Partial an alternative Jewish story, rarely told, all Jews weren't "sacrifice lambs", they did resistance. This is also their often untold and dangerous story. An honest and straightforward story of Anti-Semitism, straightforward Xenophobia when it was the worst, oppression of opinion when it was like most "politically correct" and how it affected the society. Completely unmasked, without additions or withdrawals.
And those shortcomings WW2 caused for the general people, thru rationing and so on, on essentials all need. Some non-fictive individuals, alive or deceased are, embedded in this story, names changed, replaced, and so on. Based on historical correct facts in a timeline, the actual historical contact surfaces, the political decisions, some key individuals, has happened, has lived, and left a historical imprint.
A fully plausible; but fictive story when all this was a reality. Characters may be fictive, but not the historical basic development. A time of imprinted violence, openly shown and fed racism and persecution of dissidents. A part of history WE'RE NEVER ALLOWED TO FORGET. This is my first ever US translation, but practice makes a master. This book nr 1 of 10 in the series.