Maria Anne Hirschmann

Maria Anne Hirschmann is a teacher in America whose real-life story was adapted in the Hansi, the Girl who Loved the Swastika, a comic published by Spire Christian Comics.^[1]

Hirschmann was caught in the events of World War II when the Nazis went to Czechoslovakia and the local Sudeten German population came under the influence of Nazism. When the Soviets came, she managed to go to the American-occupied Germany. Later she emigrated to America as a teacher and wrote a book about her life which was also adapted as a comic.

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