Hitler is really starting to influence the young people of Germany. For one boy, it meant death. He hung himself in his closet because his parents would not let him join the Hitler-Jugend. Even when Trudi and Ingrid went to the movie, it discriminated people that were "inferior" to the Germans. It made Trudi sick. She also witnessed several boys push a woman down after she had scolded them for taunting an old Jewish man. She couldn't believe that they weren't ashamed. Trudi witnessed another cruel crime in front of Frau Weiler's grocery store. Six boys had stoned a little girl and Frau Weiler grabbed her broom and pounded whatever she could get of their bodies. The next morning she was arrested for attacking six children for one whole week.
At this point, Klaus was seeing a teacher that was his own age. Trudi is stunned and jealous. She had been answering marriage ads in the newspaper to see what men looked for in women. To see how closely these men resembled the way they had advertised themselves, Trudi answered two ads and arranged a meeting. They were both older and their impatience and discomfort seemed strange to her. She felt good about herself when they fussed over their maroon handkerchiefs; the way she would recognize them. Slowly her love for Klaus was turning into hate.
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