Facing the Enemy

How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship

By: Barbara Krasner

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Hardcover | 5 December 2023

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Hardcover
368 Pages

Age
12 - 99

Grade
8 - 12

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 16.3 x 3.3

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Tommy and Benjy's friendship is torn apart when Tommy starts attending Camp Nordland, a pro-Nazi summer camp, in this novel-in-verse for teens set in New Jersey during World War II.

What do you do when your best friend becomes the enemy?

Growing up in Newark, NJ, in the 1930s, Tommy Anspach and Benjy Puterman have always done everything together. It never mattered that Benjy was Jewish and Tommy was of German descent. But as Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party comes to power in Germany and war brews in Europe, everything changes. Tommy is sent to Camp Nordland, a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, where he quickly learns that Jews are the enemy. Heartbroken by the loss of his friend, Benjy forms a teen version of the Newark Minutemen, an anti-Nazi vigilante group, all the while hoping that Tommy will abandon his extremist beliefs.Will Benjy and Tommy be able to overcome their differences and be friends again?

Based on real-life events and groups like the Newark Minutemen and the pro-Nazi German American Bund, this daring novel-in-verse reveals the long history of American right-wing extremism, and its impact on the lives of two ordinary teens.

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