Etienne Thibaut is a young man who has joined the Nazis and works for the Ormaie Gestapo. He’s French—and it’s unclear if he knows that his parents and siblings, Maman, Papa, Mitraillette, and Amélie, work for the Resistance. He works under von Linden and sometimes guards Julie while she writes. Julie realizes that because Etienne is French, von Linden doesn’t fully trust him. Etienne is cruel to Julie and the other prisoners, but when his sisters confront him about his choice to join the Nazis, Etienne refuses to either fully endorse the Nazis and their cruel methods or to denounce them. Maddie writes part of her account in an old notebook of Etienne’s, which he used for a short period of time as a 10-year-old to record local birds he saw. Maddie finds it sad that a child nature enthusiast grew up to be a Nazi.
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Etienne’s written out a list of local birds on the first three pages. For a week in 1928 Etienne Thibaut decided he was going to be a nature enthusiast. Sort of thing you do when you’re ten, about the age I took Gran’s gramophone to bits.
The list of birds makes me sad. What changes a small boy from a bird-watcher into a Gestapo inquisitor?
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Part 2, Section 7
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Etienne’s written out a list of local birds on the first three pages. For a week in 1928 Etienne Thibaut decided he was going to be a nature enthusiast. Sort of thing you do when you’re ten, about the age I took Gran’s gramophone to bits.
The list of birds makes me sad. What changes a small boy from a bird-watcher into a Gestapo inquisitor?
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