Adolf Hitler's ominous statements seem only a distant threat to eleven-year-old rudi kaplan. But when the nazi forces invade poland and bomb his home city of warsaw, rudi finds out that he Is Hitler's enemy not only beca...Adolf Hitler's ominous statements seem only a distant threat to eleven-year-old rudi kaplan. But when the nazi forces invade poland and bomb his home city of warsaw, rudi finds out that he Is Hitler's enemy not only because he is a pole, but also because he's a jew--and a christian.