About

Peter Bakke is a student of the tumultuous years between the Great Wars (1919-1939). He has read or is reading more than 50 books on the subject and became fascinated when he uncovered the true story of a man who resisted the Nazis for 13 years, a man who Bakke has  named “von Haar.” (Von Haar’s true identity will be revealed at a later date). This man was an academic, one quarter Jewish, who had ample opportunity to escape Germany as many Germans did do during that period, but decided instead to stay in Germany to influence events. It was a tragic mistake to do so. This is a fictionalized account in journal form of that man’s heroic life in Nazified Germany. The journal begins in 1932 and ends 13 years later with Von Haar’s execution in Berlin by the SS, ordered personally by Hitler, only a few days before World War II ends. Grief-stricken at the death of their oldest son, Von Haar’s father and mother take their own lives within a few months.