I needed a quick read, something I could finish in an hour or two. Granddaughter Allison urged me to read a book she'd just finished, Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French.It fit my needs so I started reading. I didn't put it down until I finished it two hours later.
The story line is simple--what if Hitler had a daughter? What if he kept her hidden away because she wasn't "perfect"? What if she had a teacher who kept up with her lessons during the war, and what if the daughter was unaware of how the world viewed her father?
What caught my attention was the role of Anna as storyteller. Like many tellers I know, she seemed to be telling a story that was being channeled through her. It was not a story that she may have wanted to tell, and yet she was compelled to continue, day after day.
Stories can be like that. They grab you, won't let you go, live in your mind and demand to be told. Hitler's Daughter grabbed me too. I wondered, what if? Although a children's book, the story line is strong and simple enough to hold anyone with the imagination to believe that perhaps, just perhaps, it might have happened just this way.
As I tell my storytelling audiences, it's as true as you believe it is.
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