Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika

    (Spire, 1976)
©1976 Maria Anne Hirschmann. Based on the book Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika ©1973 by Tyndale House Publishers, and assigned to Maria Anne Hirschmann.

Hansi is a young German girl who becomes enamored with Nazi literature and soon wins a position in a youth training school. As she leaves, her mother tells her “don’t ever forget Jesus”; however Hansi is soon swept up in the fervor and excitement of the training center. When the Third Reich falls, Hansi and her fellow students end up as Russian prisoners. Hansi manages to escape to West Germany, then under American occupation. Eventually, after marrying her school sweetheart, she moves to America. Nevertheless, Hansi and her husband, haunted by their former beliefs and actions, are unhappy until, one day, they turn to the Bible. Hansi now inspires her students to love America, where freedom reigns.

Spire Christian Comics presented many Christian-oriented comics like this one in the early 1970s, including God’s Smuggler and My Brother’s Keeper.
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