Preface
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What follows is Freidrich's part. I think the important thing to keep in mind while reading his part is that he was not a good man before. I think that, in the novel itself, it's easy to write off the bad things that Freidrich did in his past, because, while he tells Kathleen about them, we never see the real extent, and we only see the good things he does now. Certainly he explains to Kathleen, briefly, what his past entails, but it is not hard for us to seemingly glance over this. Freidrich hurt people, and he humiliated people. He killed people. He is much more broken than I think even Kathleen realizes throughout the events of the book. If there had been a sequel, more of this would have been explored. He has a past, and it is not good. I love Freidrich as a character, and I do not want these excerpts and pieces to change how you feel overall about him, so much as I want them to give you a different lens through which to view his part in the story. He came a long way to get where he was in the novel. I want people to see that we come from different places, that we're all broken...some in different, and seemingly worse, ways than others...but that forgiveness can still occur.
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Winfred
Ficción históricaThe Women's Guard, The Soldier, The Nazi, The Spy. The Spy turned Prisoner. As they say, dead men (or women, as the case may be) tell no tales. But Kathleen Winfred isn't dead; she managed to escape. Now, the story of her capture by Nazis in occup...
