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Page 155, paragraph 6: “‘Stop this foolishness.’ His voice was so angry, she instinctively took a step back. ‘Gretchen, I have no wish to become entangled in your family’s petty domestic squabbles.’ We shan’t speak of this again.”’ This quote is after Gretchen was beat by Reinhard and goes to HItler hoping for help, but instead Hitler does not help her and tells her to get over it. This shows the theme because Gretchen usually put all of her trust in her Uncle Dolf, but he did not help her the way she needed him to, and its events like these, that slowly cause Gretchen to go against Hitler and the Nazi Party.

page 12 , 5 + 6 “By now, the crowd had scattered. All except a lone man, watching her. He stood beyond the street lamp's illumination, so he remained in shadow. ‘You’re not at all like the others,’ he said. The voice was young and quick, with the sharp accent of a Berliner. Not a man, but a but a boy, perhaps her age or a little older. She wished she could see him. ‘Are you, Fraulein Muller?’” This is the start to how Gretchen loses her trust of the NSDAP. This man that she had ran into, was Daniel and he shows how he liked that Gretchen stood up for a Jew even though she was German. This was when she slowly discovers that she is losing her trust towards the NSDAP (Nazi Party).
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