“Through Innocent Eyes” captures the self-actualization of 10 year old Gertrude as she progresses from childhood to adolescence and becomes ‘one’ with her country. At 13, Gertrude travels 450 miles to “Landjahr Lager.” Here, she will receive the very best rural education. In 1941, there are one-hundred thousand girls in Landjahr, and Gertrude Kerschner is one of them. The revised edition is now available!
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read more“Through Innocent Eyes – The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth” will be available in December, 2012, with BalboaPress.com. I want to thank you for visiting my blogsite and if you would like to become friends, please visit my Facebook pages: Cynthia A. Sandor or Landjahr Lager, both in English and in German or any…
read moreFor Immediate Release “Through Innocent Eyes – The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth” By Cynthia A. Sandor “Through Innocent Eyes – The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth,” written by former Greenwich resident Cynthia A. Sandor has been selected as a finalist in the 2012-Balboa Press Writer’s Contest. Hay House Visions, the new…
read more“Through Innocent Eyes – The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth” will be available for sale through Balboapress.com! “Through Innocent Eyes,” reveals the personal life of Gertrude Kerschner, and her journey through self-actualization while serving in the Hitler Youth. Based upon Gertrude’s personal journal, her story includes ceremonies, ancient neo-pagan rituals, traditions, and folklore. Pre-orders…
read moreThe National Socialistic upbringing of the German youths trains these Landjahr girls to build their integral moral character with a foundation based on honor, loyalty, obedience, and discipline. Coupled with ancient neo-pagan rituals, traditions, folklore, and the Totalitarian regime of this period, “Through Innocent Eyes” captures the psychology of an Austrian girl named Trudel, and…
read moreIt has taken me fourteen months to write, edit and format the complete manuscript. Finally, 367 pages, 144,000 words. Currently researching how book publishing industry works. One word of advice: Do not sign any contract with a publisher without investing the money to hire an attorney to review it before you sign it! This small investment will save you thousands…
read moreFor the past eight months, my head has been deep inside the book, writing, editing, researching and writing. My average writing day is 11 hours. This is an incredible journey. I just finished another chapter and I am about to embark on phase two of the book. When I started writing the manuscript, I thought…
read moreI was so dissapointed when my editor emailed me and said she could not look at my manuscript because she is moving. That did not stop me from moving forward however. I am determined to have the manuscript reviewed.
read moreI am SO excited! I finished typing the manuscript into my computer, double and triple checked it for grammer and spelling, then emailed it off to my editor! I believe there is an untapped source of valuable information out there that no one has really addressed – and that is what life was like during…
read moreThe Landjahr (country service year) was a concept of the Hitler Youth and BDM – Bund Deutscher Maedel (League of German Girls), whose aim was to furnish voluntary agricultural assistance in Germany’s eastern provinces. The service was voluntary except in the case of university students who were obliged to perform their Landjahr (it was, in…
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