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Have you ever wondered if cows sneeze? Well, Mark
did. He asks all sorts of questions about everything imaginable. Like the elephant's child he is full of "insatiable curiosity''.
Anna, on the other hand, is calm and quiet and a great storyteller. It is she who tells this irresistible, heart-stopping
story of Hitler's daughter.
It all started with a game, just a harmless little story game, meant to take
little Tracey's mind off first days of school fears. Little Tracey, one of the four children who wait in the bus shelter,
thinks up a character for Anna to make a story about -- a goldfish, a horse and so on.
One day, however,
Anna decides it's her turn to make up the character -- Hitler's daughter. When Little Tracey gives her the name of Heidi,
Mark notices that Anna's eyes go funny as she settles into her storytelling mood.
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Heidi has a red birthmark across her face "like someone has burnt it with an
iron'', and one leg is shorter than the other so she limps. She lives in a big German house and has everything that someone
like her could wish , except for one thing -- the truth. Her father, Duffi, is really Hitler, but he doesn't want anyone to
know that he has a daughter, especially one with a disability, and so she has no contact with other people except Frauline
Gelber, her private teacher who would never betray the Fuhrer and the staff at the house.
On each rare
occasion when Duffi comes to visit he brings Heidi, a beautiful blonde-haired doll. Heidi only sees Hitler's generous side
so, of course, she doesn't realise that he has caused the deaths of millions of people. Then all of a sudden, Heidi is out
there where the mad war is going on and that polite, elegant, good little girl that Frauline Gelber had taught her to be has
disappeared . .
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