They Didn’t Tell Us We’d Be Hunted

They promised we’d be saviors

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I wasn’t sure if I would be the hero or a Nazi.

As a Christian teenage girl, my parents made sure that I read “The Hiding Place.” It’s a book about a Christian white woman, Corrie Ten Boom, and how, when Hitler took over her country, she protected Jewish people from concentration camps, until the secret service caught her and she was thrown in a concentration camp herself.

She survived and told her story across the world as a speaker, until eventually settling in America.

Christians loved her story because she believed in Jesus and felt that God helped her against the Nazis.

She was a hero, who sacrificed everything. And although I wanted to believe in the same scenario, I’d do the same thing, I was scared I wouldn’t. I knew it would take a lot of bravery and strength to do so.

While most people picture themselves as heroes in those situations, I’ve never been conceited enough to make that assumption. People do a lot of stupid things out of fear.

I didn’t like dictators and I hated Hitler, but death and torture are terrifying things, especially when your loved ones are threatened.

The funny thing about it is, I thought that those two things, Nazi and hero…