It is based upon the early life of the author whose Jewish father, noted drama critic, journalist and screenwriter Alfred Kerr, was wanted by the Nazis.

'[5]The story starts in Berlin, in March 1933, when nine-year-old Anna, the main character in the trilogy, finds out one morning that her father is missing.

She and her brother, Max, discover that Papa thinks that Adolf Hitler might win the elections, and has fled to Prague.

She opts to take her new woolly dog, and leave behind her pink rabbit toy, believing she will return to Berlin after a short time.

This really scares Anna and she is afraid that it means that Papa will be put in a room with one thousand coins being dropped onto his head, suffocating him.

Fortunately, though, Anna notices the destination label just in time, and they manage to get their luggage back and onto the correct train to Paris.

In 1936, after two years in Paris, the family decides to move again, this time to London, as Papa thinks the BBC might buy a biographical film script on Napoleon's mother, inspired by a talk he had with the children.

Bombs on Aunt Dainty, which was originally published as The Other Way Round in 1975,[1] is about Anna and her family's life in London during World War II.

[7] When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit was adapted by the German TV channel WDR as the television film Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl, directed by Ilse Hofmann [de], starring Martin Benrath and Elisabeth Trissenaar.

[8] A cinematic adaptation of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit premiered in December 2019 in Germany, directed by Oscar-winning director Caroline Link.