by Jonathon Van Maren
“People have often asked, and we’ve asked ourselves—how could Nazi Germany participate in the Holocaust? How can you take entire segments of your society, Jews as well as Gypsies as well as dissenting pastors, and round them up, and exterminate them in the millions?” Brock Thoene says, “Germany was widely regarded as the most advanced, the most civilized, most cultured nation in Europe of that era. It seems almost imponderable. How can you reconcile those things?”
As a renowned author of historical fiction, Brock Thoene has spent his entire career searching for the answers to these questions—and presenting the public with answers in the form of historical fiction.
