The Sower of Black Field

Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany

By: Katherine Koch

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen.

As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule. Relying upon his ingenuity to keep them out of prison, Fr. Viktor solicits aid from an unlikely intercessor-the Nazi charity worker who confiscated his monastery for state purposes.

In April 1945, American liberators make a gruesome discovery: the SS have left a mass grave of concentration camp victims on Schwarzenfeld's borders. Enraged by the sight, the infantry commander orders the townspeople to disinter 140 corpses, construct coffins despite material shortages, dig a grave trench, and hold a funeral ceremony-all in 24 hours. If they fail to fulfill this ultimatum, he vows to execute all German men in town.

Fr. Viktor has to pull off a miracle: he must convince his countrymen that his followers are not the enemy. Their humanity is intact. And most of all, they are innocent.

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The use of historical facts and a better understanding what the town people went through.

This was an excellent book and it was intriguing and kept you captivated in the historical advance that unfolded during World War II.

Ease of belief in all characters

Each character were so real and firm in their role of family position or place in community

Boring

I listened for an hour and finally stopped. It was just too boring. My wife was listening with me in the car, and she thought it was boring too.

The sower of blackfield

religious. it reads like a long boring sermon on a cold, damp day. If your a member of a restrictive denomination, you might be able to tolerate this book.