Escaping Hitler

Escaping Hitler is the true story of a fourteen-year-old boy, G?nter Stern, who, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939, the G?nter boarded a bus to the border with Luxembourg, illegally crossed the river and walked alone for seven days through Belgium into Holland, intent on catching a ferry to England for his freedom. The outcome was not exactly as he had planned. - Escaping Hitler tells the true-life story of this courageous and determined individual who, within forty years, progressed from refugee to Joe Stirling, Sheriff of Norwich. - - The author gathered her information through interviews with Joe Stirling and a moving ?foot-stepping? journey undertake in 2013. The author visited G?nter?s birthplace; meet with a school friend; discovered his home in Koblenz where he fled following Kristallnacht in 1938; drove the route of G?nter?s walk through Europe and retraced the final steps G?nter?s parents, prior to their deportation by to a Nazi death camp in Poland during 1942. -