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Hansi: The Wench Who Admired the Swastika
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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
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John Fuller: Those are the sounds of a nation that was totally deceived, throwing itself at the feet of Adolf Hitler, who was eventually responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people. Today on Focus on the Family, we&#;ll hear from a woman who walked away from the Third Reich, and lived to tell about it. Your host is Focus president Jim Daly and I&#;m John Fuller.
Jim Daly: John, this is an amazing personal story that will take us back to World War II and the years preceding it. It&#;s the story of Maria Anne Hirschmann, whose nickname is, &#;Hansi.&#; She was just a preteen when Hitler&#;s tanks rolled into her native country of Czechoslovakia in , and I don&#;t wanna give her story away, but that&#;s where we&#;re headed. Hansi&#;s a former schoolteacher, a speaker and an author. She&#;s the mother of five, and grandmother of many. This is a powerful story in the tradition of Corrie Ten Boon whom you&#;ve also heard on this broadcast, and like most of those who survived the horrors of World War II, Hansi has a story of courage under fire. It certainly captured my attention, I know it&#;ll capture yours as well.
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Chalkboard Champions
Sometimes individuals who have the most amazing personal stories become examples of remarkable educators. One such example is Maria Anne Hirschmann, a former Nazi youth leader who became an honored American educator.
Maria Anne Hirschmann, popularly known as Hansi, was born in Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. As an infant, she was abandoned and raised in a foster home. When Nazi troops invaded her country in , they travelled the countryside testing all the local children, even those who attended the little one-room school that fourteen-year-old Hansi attended. The child was selected to be sent to Prague to be trained as a Nazi youth leader. &#;For the first time, somebody actually chose me, &#; Hansi once remembered. &#;I was the poorest kid in the village, so I could not expect to go on to high school or college. Now I thought I had caught the rainbow.&#; Brainwashed, the youngster pledged her allegiance to Adolph Hitler. When Germany was defeated in WWII, Hansi, by then nineteen, spent several difficult months as a prisoner in a Russian communist labor camp. One day, she simply walked out of the camp, expecting to be shot. The shot was never fired. After spending several weeks exposed to the elements, with only herbs and mushrooms to eat and sleeping u