Interviewed by Leslie S. Lowe How would you describe this book and its themes in a couple of sentences? When Ashes Cried provides the reader with an insider’s view of Nazi reasoning and need to remove all Jews from German society––once and for all––after Kristallnacht. Seen through the eyes of the amnesic protagonist, Friedrich Richard,…
Sins of the Fathers, he says, “picks up in August 1934 as Hitler and the Nazis pass law after law to disenfranchise the Jews to drive them out of Germany. Sins delves into the refugee crisis that spread across Europe and mirrors events of today, and ends with Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Hitler and the Nazis’ Germany turn violent. But the backbone of Sins is the little-known, true story of how the German military leaders planned to overthrow Hitler and his heinous regime in September of 1938.