All God's Children by Anna Schmidt

Author:Anna Schmidt [Schmidt, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Books & Bibles, Literature & Fiction, Romance, Historical, United States, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Religious & Inspirational Fiction, Christianity, Christian Fiction
ISBN: 1620291401
Amazon: B00E63N5RC
Goodreads: 17214101
Publisher: Barbour Books
Published: 2013-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

The rocking of the train made Liesl nauseous, and she spent much of the trip to Eglofs with her head on Beth’s lap instead of taking in the passing scenery.

Beth’s thoughts were taken up with the people she’d met in the White Rose. She admired Sophie. It was difficult for her to believe that someone so young—just twenty-one—could be so intense when it came to any discussion of politics or philosophy. Hans’s sister certainly could hold her own when her brother and his friends bemoaned the current state of affairs and what they might do to change things.

When Beth had first begun attending gatherings of the group, she had mistakenly thought that their only mission was to save their country. But she soon learned that for many of them, their concern went even deeper. Traute Lafrenz—Hans’s former girlfriend, for example, had in 1937, when she was only seventeen, taken risks to care for and protect her Jewish neighbors.

Seventeen, Beth thought. That was the same age she had been when she first arrived in Munich.

Then there was Alexander Schmorell—Shurik to those close to him. He was handsome, aristocratic, and part Russian. Every week he would dress in a Russian peasant’s shirt and take food to a group of Polish and Russian laborers serving out sentences of hard labor in the city. More than once Beth had heard him speak of his dream of living out his post-war days in Russia.

But the single thing that struck Beth most was the bond of friendship that had formed between these men and women of the White Rose. They loved each other as if they were family—in some cases more deeply than family. They were a group not unlike Beth’s Quaker family back home in Wisconsin. But this group did not sit in silence and wait for guidance. Instead they debated and argued and sometimes even shouted at one another until they reached a consensus.

As the train approached the station in Eglofs, Beth was looking forward to meeting Sophie’s friend, who would meet the train. The plan was for there to be a mix-up in the cases, and then the friend would come racing after them to exchange cases, signaling that she had removed the leaflets from behind the lining in the top of the suitcase.

But as they stood in the rail station, no one approached them, even though Josef went through the prescribed motion of setting down the suitcase and pretending to make a phone call.

Several of the pamphlets were already in stamped, addressed envelopes and only needed to be dropped into a mailbox. That part was easy. But at least two hundred copies were intended for distribution in the usual manner. Some would be left in phone booths, others in movie houses or posted on bulletin boards or taped to shop doors under cover of darkness.

“We can’t do it ourselves,” Beth murmured to Josef while a kind stationmaster tended to Liesl. He had suggested some carbonated water and soda crackers to help settle her stomach.

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