Lore — Germany
Fourteen-year-old Lore leads her younger siblings across a devastated Germany to reach their grandmother in Hamburg after their SS-officer parents are arrested by Allied forces in 1945.
Germany's collapse in May 1945 left millions displaced. Thousands of SS families faced arrest under Allied denazification. Lore's journey from Bavaria to Hamburg represents the experience of Germans confronting the reality of Nazi crimes for the first time — particularly as she encounters a Jewish Holocaust survivor whose documents she needs to survive.