![]() For Hanna and her loving family, long term separation causes pain on all sides. Over the years, escaping becomes increasingly difficult, and repercussions on families left behind are costly. Hanna, a restless teen, rebels under the bleak strictures of this new reign. The “People” replace “The Fatherland,” communism replaces fascism and Young Pioneers replace the Hitler Youth. Almost a mirror image of the Third Reich, The communist regime boasts new governing officials, restrictions on freedom, youth programs, and its own set of propaganda. For Willner’s family, as for millions of others behind the Iron Curtain, a new normal, intrudes upon their lives. The Second World War has wound to a close. Willner’s account, Forty Autumns, chronicles the experiences of her family during the iron-fisted regime of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990). ![]()
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