Sending Down the Sparrows Stephen Brown Daniel Weissbort (with Ted Hughes)

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Sending Down the Sparrows Stephen Brown Daniel Weissbort (with Ted Hughes)Sending Down the Sparrows, a work of historical fiction, bears witness to the systematic persecution and extermination of the handicapped by Nazi Germany through the character of Viktor, a young man who is a reluctant member of the Hitler Youth. Viktor has a secret; a mentally handicapped sister who is the ward of a state institution. Viktor soon finds himself caught between the Nazi ideologies of racial and genetic purity and the love of a sister for