Chapter 19
This country's soldiers beat Alfons with their rifle butts.
What is France?
This is the name of Helen's daughter.
Who is Doris?
What is he wanted answers and to put memories to rest?
This is the name of Helen's new husband.
Who is Robert Waterford?
This is what Alfons responds with when asked if he would've killed Helen Waterford if ordered to do so.
What is yes?
This is Alfons' initial response to footage of the concentration camps.
What is he thought they were fake?
This is how Helen feels about traveling to the United States.
What is deadly afraid?
This is the name of the Hitler Youth leader, who, during the Nuremburg trials, claimed that deporting Jews was a "contribution to European culture."
Who is Baldur von Schirach?
This is the city in America that Helen moved to.
What is Chicago?
This is what Alfons maintains, to the shock and offense of many of his listeners.
What is that he was a victim of the Fuhrer who was brainwashed by the Nazis?
This is the location that Alfons was put to work in.
What is the hospital?
This is what Gre and Mevrouwtje did to Helen and Siegfried.
What is turned them in for a reward?
This is the chief of propaganda who poisoned his children and ordered him and his wife shot.
Who is Josef Goebbels?
This is what Helen's mother said to her when she told her about being hungry.
What is "nobody wants to hear or talk about this anymore?"
This is the obsession that Helen and Alfons share.
What is to the the living- those who could still think with an open mind?
This is what Alfons thought of Hitler after hearing that he committed suicide.
What is he didn't think anything less of him?
This is why Helen believes Siegfried didn't make it.
What is he was too sensitive and gave up hope before his time?
This is the promise Alfons makes that will haunt him forever.
What is promising his grandmother he would come back?
This is where Doris asks to go after seeing her mother again for the first time since she left.
What is back to school?
This is how Alfons feels when Helen invites him to their first meeting of other Jewish Holocaust survivors.
This is what the women were called who were tasked with rebuilding their homes.
Who are the "rubble women"?
This is the reason Helen gives for wanting to work in the orphanage.
What is "these children were living in a world that hated them for what their parents had done, that they too, might grow up to hate."
This is what Alfons says he can never deny.
What is the shameful evidence against him/his enthusiasm about the Third Reich?
This is Helen's goal, stated exactly as she says it in chapter 22.
What is to be sure that the years 1933-1945 are never erased from man's memory?
What is she never hated any Nazis?