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Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one, each building on the other. Part I is the effort of a German High School teacher and his indefatigable students to uncover the true history of their town, once the site of a Nazi slave labor camp. Part II is the memoir of Blanka Pudler, a 15-year-old Jewess incarcerated in that camp. As usual D.Z. Stone writes movingly, compellingly. The result, a story so worth telling, so well told. - Dr Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA As a teacher in the 1980s, Dieter Vaupel broke the long silence surrounding the crimes of National Socialism. With his students, he documented the suffering of foreign forced workers, established relationships with these exploited people, and honored their lives in various ways, including bringing Blanka Pudler's story to the world. - Professor Krause-Vilmar

"Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one, each building on the other. Part I is the effort of a German High School teacher and his indefatigable students to uncover the true history of their town, once the site of a Nazi slave labor camp. Part II is the memoir of Blanka Pudler, a 15-year-old Jewess incarcerated in that camp. As usual D.Z. Stone writes movingly, compellingly. The result, a story so worth telling, so well told.""""- Dr Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA """"As a teacher in the 1980s, Dieter Vaupel broke the long silence surrounding the crimes of National Socialism. With his students, he documented the suffering of foreign forced workers, established relationships with these exploited people, and honored their lives in various ways, including bringing Blanka Pudler's story to the world.""""- Professor Krause-Vilmar"

Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one, each building on the other. Part I is the effort of a German High School teacher and his indefatigable students to uncover the true history of their town, once the site of a Nazi slave labor camp. Part II is the memoir of Blanka Pudler, a 15-year-old Jewess incarcerated in that camp. As usual D.Z. Stone writes movingly, compellingly. The result, a story so worth telling, so well told.""""- Dr Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA """"As a teacher in the 1980s, Dieter Vaupel broke the long silence surrounding the crimes of National Socialism. With his students, he documented the suffering of foreign forced workers, established relationships with these exploited people, and honored their lives in various ways, including bringing Blanka Pudler's story to the world.""""- Professor Krause-Vilmar

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Dieter Vaupel, born 1950, is a teacher and political scientist. He studied at the universities of Giessen and Kassel and has a doctorate on forced labor and compensation. He worked at various schools, lastly as a high school principal. He is now a History lecturer at Kassel University. He is the author of several books and articles on history and teaching topics. In addition to collaborating on A Fairy Tale Unmasked, D. Z. Stone, a journalist trained in cultural anthropology, has authored No Past Tense (Vallentine Mitchell), and reported for The New York Times and Newsday. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, she holds a master's from Columbia University.

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