Potato Thief: Surviving WWII as the Enemy's Daughter

by Maria Wilhemina Brandner

At age 5, Marille helplessly watched as her father was hauled off to a concentration camp as an “Enemy of the Third Reich.” This would be but one of many hardships she endured during her adolescent years growing up near Munich, Germany during WWII. And yet she not only survived, but thrived. Through her memoirs, join this spunky young girl through adventure, heartbreak, spiritual growth, and lost innocence amid the realities of war.

145 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 6, 2018

Reviews

[sally reid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Young lives and how they survived W W 2

Life in Bavaria was simple and easy at first. But at a young age, children learned how to steal, pilfer items needed for a life to survive. A hard life, barely surviving, struggling, but making it through the war intact .

[Michele Novak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Avoid story some times I felt truth was exaggerated. Overall a story too compelling to put down.

I often felt like the person telling the story exaggerated her part in the family's survival. in my opinion, she presented herself to be the savior. However I enjoyed the story.

[Leslie Brockman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting perspective

This was the first timr I read a book from a non-Holocaust WWII person. Enjoyable without being disrespectful or facetious

[Kgparkhurst Parkhurst · Rating 2 out of 5]

Self serving

Self serving story about a German women during World War II. It was written to absolve her presence and nothing else.