{"product_id":"when-we-were-innocent-a-totally-heartbreaking-story-about-a-wartime-family-secret","title":"When We Were Innocent: A totally heartbreaking story about a wartime family secret","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou love your father with all your heart. But what if he’s not who you think he is? What if he’s kept an unforgiveable secret from you his whole life?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibby Trent\u003c\/b\u003e believes she knows the difference between right and wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut everything changes when she finds out about a man named \u003cb\u003eHans Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e, a Nazi who escaped Germany after the Second World War. 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