So, the story is really rushed its divided in three parts between the main characters it starts with two friends Rosa and Elen that are said to be best friends but we can't really know, there is no development!!! I mean Elen cries when they get separated but the autor didn't really showed us any scenes where the two had some kind of deep bond or anything. Anyway, back to the start, the two friends are hanging around when they find a dying bird and some guy shows up and try to put it back on it's nest but it suddenly fly away and it's all that it takes for Elen to fall in love with him, like, really in love. Forward two years the Second War starts and the two friends got separated because Rosa is a jew and Elen is deutsch and Elen is in love with Alex because he's the guy that saved that bird!! oh, he's also from the hitler youth so he's a nazi. We also got told that Max, Elen's brother is a college student with strong feelings against the government and so he tells Elen about concentration camps and what they probably did to her friend.... Elen than proceeds to confront Alex, her lover and he tells her that he doens't know and it ends there, she's still in love even knowing that. Anyway the second chapter is about Alex rising in the nazi army and bla bla bla who cares, nothing really happens that has a huge impact, Elen never mentioned her friend again, she starts working with her brother spreading anti nazi propaganda but when Alex comes back she's still in love and whatsoever ughh... her parents don't really talk to her about anything we don't know what Elen does, like, she goes to college? what about other friends? how she feels about the government? Does she not care that her boyfriend somewhat killed her best friend?? I think the autor tried too hard to develop a huge story into a single volume manga that just couldn't work in any way.
The art in this manga is the only good thing about it, it's that classic shoujo style of drawings and panelings but it suffers from a lack of differentiation of the characters, sometimes i couldn't really differentiate between Alex and Max and many others to be honest. The scenery is also greatly done!
If you want to read something like this go for Adolf by Tezuka it's a million times better and i know it's not exactly the same plot and stuff but stay away from 1945.
