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E: 29/08 Win The Mascot (book)
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This month's book competition tells the story of how five-year-old Jewish boy was adopted by an SS extermination squad during the Second World War.
When a German led execution squad decimated his village, Alex Kurzem fled into the Russian countryside. He survived by foraging for food and stealing clothes, but was soon discovered by the Latvian police, who later became an SS unit. Not knowing he was Jewish, they made him their mascot, dressing the little “corporal” in uniform and toting him from massacre to massacre. Terrified, the resourceful Alex charmed the highest echelons of the Latvian Third Reich, eventually starring in a Nazi propaganda film. When the war ended he was sent to Australia with a family of Latvian refugees.
A survival story, a grim fairy-tale, and a psychological drama, this remarkable memoir asks provocative questions about identity, complicity, and forgiveness.
Answer: The Soviets
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This month's book competition tells the story of how five-year-old Jewish boy was adopted by an SS extermination squad during the Second World War.
When a German led execution squad decimated his village, Alex Kurzem fled into the Russian countryside. He survived by foraging for food and stealing clothes, but was soon discovered by the Latvian police, who later became an SS unit. Not knowing he was Jewish, they made him their mascot, dressing the little “corporal” in uniform and toting him from massacre to massacre. Terrified, the resourceful Alex charmed the highest echelons of the Latvian Third Reich, eventually starring in a Nazi propaganda film. When the war ended he was sent to Australia with a family of Latvian refugees.
A survival story, a grim fairy-tale, and a psychological drama, this remarkable memoir asks provocative questions about identity, complicity, and forgiveness.
Answer: The Soviets
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