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A Hanukkah Gift, Part II

A wounded German soldier and a Jewish girl hiding from the Gestapo save each others' lives.

After a long time when the colonel said nothing Hans asked, “And what is the bad news?” The colonel smiled slightly with an expression of complex appreciation. “Private Rickmers, you are a credit to the German Army. You know how to smile at death.” The co...

A Hanukkah Gift, Part I

A wounded German soldier and a Jewish girl hiding from the Gestapo save each others' lives.

Patches of snow flecked the dirt road in rural France as a squad of German soldiers rode by on motorcycles. A land mine exploded, destroying the first motorcycle, and killing the rider. The other motorcycles crashed. Their riders tried to shoot at unseen...