The Nazis find out about Papa as he travels, and a price of one thousand marks is put on his head. So Max and Anna are left on their own for a little while. He comes back and wants Mama to come back with him as a prospective buyer. Soon, however, Papa thinks that they should move to Paris, and goes there to find out about accommodation. In Switzerland, they settle in a gasthof on the shore of Lake Zurich, and the family stay there for six months. It is from this that the title is derived as she considers that Hitler and the Nazis have "stolen" her toy.
She opts to take her new woolly dog, and leave behind her pink rabbit toy, believing she will return to Berlin after a short time. It is at this time that Anna has to choose which toy she wishes to take with her. However the parents decide not to wait until after the elections and Mama and the children rushed into Switzerland in alarming secrecy. If Hitler loses, then Papa will come back home to Berlin. If Hitler wins the elections, Mama, Max and Anna will join Papa in Switzerland. Because the family is of Jewish heritage, and Papa is also a well-known critic of the Nazis, this is important.
She and her brother, Max, discover that Papa thinks that Adolf Hitler might win the elections, and has fled to Prague. The story starts in Berlin, in March 1933, when nine-year-old Anna, the main character in the trilogy, finds out one morning that her father is missing.
When we were in Paris we had this grotty, tiny flat and were looking out over Paris and I said to my father, 'Isn't it wonderful being a refugee!' I much preferred it to the sort of childhood I would have had had we had a so-called normal childhood. My brother Michael and I knew there wasn't much money but it didn't seem to matter much. The book gives a distinctive child's perspective on the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany and the experience of being a refugee, reflecting Kerr's positive feelings about her own experience: Kerr wanted him to know what it was really like and so wrote When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. She came to write the book when her own son was eight after seeing The Sound of Music he remarked, "Now we know what it was like when Mummy was a little girl". Kerr's family fled their home in Berlin via Switzerland to escape to Paris and then England. It is based upon the early life of the author whose Jewish father, noted drama critic, journalist and screenwriter Alfred Kerr, was wanted by the Nazis. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is the first book in the trilogy and a well-known novel for children.
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