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Maria Anne "Hansi" Hirschmann was born in Czechoslovakia, she was raised in a foster home and attended a Nazi school....
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Most Adventists today probably don’t remember her.
Her name was Maria Anne Hirschmann.
I don’t even know if she’s still alive.
Maria Anne Hirschmann “Hansi” was born in Czechoslovakia.
(Her former husband recently passed away, I am told.) An Adventist teenager living in the German-dominated Sudetenland of what was then Czechoslovakia, she left home at the age of fourteen to receive advanced training in the Hitler Youth movement.
Soon she became a devout and passionate Nazi, leaving the faith of her childhood behind.
Through a long journey of shattered hopes, imprisonment and escape from a Soviet labor camp, extreme privation, and a chain of providential circumstances, Maria made it back to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Her story was initially told to the denomination in her first book, I Changed Gods (1), later expanded into a larger book, Hansi: Captive of the Swastika (2). The former book leaves Maria, her husband, and their fir