Comments on: Enemy’s Son — Chapter 4

By: Aaron Brooks

Aaron Brooks — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:24:50 +0000

Couldn’t you call the good people that hid and protected Jews an “underground” organization, like the underground railroad during slavery?

Ardis, loving the story, thanks for keeping it going!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:19:10 +0000

Many of the serials in all of the church mags are historical fiction, Mark, with just as serious difficulties when it comes to plot points vs. history — some worse, from the point of view of Keepa, since they sometimes involve inaccurate Mormon history.

So yeah, everybody should keep in mind that this is fiction, and if there is any doubt about some historical point, challenge it!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:04:07 +0000

Ah, well, it is fiction, isn’t it?

An anti-Nazi German underground? Sorry, Fr. Bach–there wasn’t one. Anti-Nazi Germans who did anything about it–even rising to the level of Huebner and passing out anti-war pamphlets–were few and far between. And, after the war began, about the only organized (and not very well, unfortunately) resistance efforts in Germany were led by the aristocrats of the Kreisau Kreis and the 20.07.1944 plot to kill Hitler. And most of us know how that turned out. (If you don’t, I’ll give you a hint–Hitler died on 30.04.1945.)

But, hey, it’s just children’s fiction, and no need to avoid planting a little remade history in the children’s minds!