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#1 In December 1939, an 11-year-old German boy named Paul von Mende was evacuated from Berlin to Norway with his mother. They waited for a message from his father, who was part of a department that had no official name or organizational structure.
#2 The boy was a spy, in the language of espionage. He visited a woman’s apartment and talked about the books he was given there. She helped him with his coat and slip a piece of paper into his knapsack.
#3 On July 29, 1932, Mildred exits the U-Bahn station and heads north on Friedrichstrasse, a leather satchel in her hand. She is on her way to the University of Berlin, where she lectures twice a week. She can’t believe she will not be invited back to teach in the fall.
#4 The Nazi Party was the official name of the party, but Mildred wrote to her mother that it was called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or NSDAP. It was a lie, as the party had nothing to do with socialism or the Ku Klux Klan.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	07 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669381099
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

In December 1939, an 11-year-old German boy named Paul von Mende was evacuated from Berlin to Norway with his mother. They waited for a message from his father, who was part of a department that had no official name or organizational structure.

#2

The boy was a spy, in the language of espionage. He visited a woman’s apartment and talked about the books he was given there. She helped him with his coat and slip a piece of paper into his knapsack.

#3

On July 29, 1932, Mildred exits the U-Bahn station and heads north on Friedrichstrasse, a leather satchel in her hand. She is on her way to the University of Berlin, where she lectures twice a week. She can’t believe she will not be invited back to teach in the fall.

#4

The Nazi Party was the official name of the party, but Mildred wrote to her mother that it was called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or NSDAP. It was a lie, as the party had nothing to do with socialism or the Ku Klux Klan.

#5

The German university administrator, Mildred, was told she could not return to her job after she had given a speech critical of the school’s administration. The students had covered her desk with flowers, a gesture of respect.

#6

Opernplatz is a large public square in Berlin near the University of Berlin. In the evening, wealthy operagoers spill out onto the square, and beggars trail raggedly behind them, stretching out open palms. The square is the whole of German society condensed.

#7

The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament, is a cornerstone of democracy. In 1928, the Nazi Party got less than 3 percent of the vote in a Reichstag election. In 1930, it got 18 percent. And in 1932, fascism is on the rise in Germany, but it still seems possible to defeat it.

#8

After the Nazi Party gets 37 percent of the vote, Hitler demands that President Hindenburg appoint him chancellor of Germany. President Hindenburg refuses.

#9

Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926. In 1932, it wasn’t read widely in Germany. Many German newspapers mocked Hitler’s ramblings.

#10

As Hitler’s popularity increased, the Münchener Post, a mouthpiece of the Social Democratic Party, published articles criticizing him and his followers. But many readers didn’t believe the newspaper, and continued to support Hitler.

#11

In Alexanderplatz, Mildred sees a bloody confrontation between unemployed factory workers and police officers. The SS, an elite corps of officers in a private paramilitary force, are driving a tank.

#12

Mildred’s father, William, was a horse trader. He never held a job for long, and when the novelty wore off, he would quit on short notice and return to horse trading. He and his family moved frequently.

#13

William and Georgina had a difficult time getting along, and eventually, they had a huge fight. William sold all his horses, and a few weeks later, he died alone in an empty barn during a blizzard.

#14

When Mildred got home from school, Harriette’s little girls would greet her, curious as cats. Everywhere she went, Janey wanted to go too.

#15

It was September 1, 1932. In exactly seven years, the Second World War would begin. This morning, by comparison, is not noteworthy. For Mildred, it begins like any other morning, when she rises from a simple, wood-frame bed to draw back the curtains and let in the light.

#16

After meeting in Germany, Arvid returned to his home country to finish his PhD, and Mildred went to live in Baltimore and teach English there. They wrote letters to each other, and when they finally met again six months later, they got married.

#17

Arvid and Mildred were very much in love. They went hiking in the Harz Mountains, and read poems to each other. They were happy to be together.

#18

Mildred was excited to begin her new job at the Berliner Städtisches Abendgymnasium für Erwachsene, or the Berlin Night School for Adults. She would be teaching German students, who were mostly unemployed and from poor families.

#19

Mildred has lived in Berlin for many years now. She loves the city’s diversity and its culture. She has never visited Italy or Greece, but she has been to France and London.

#20

Germany has the most newspapers of any industrialized nation. There are four thousand seven hundred weeklies and dailies, many with morning, midday, and evening editions.

#21

Germany’s press is free, and reflects the multiparty system in the Weimar Republic. The old order has been replaced by a fragile democracy. There is a lively friction between the avantgarde and the establishment.

#22

Mildred is a teacher who is on her way to visit a student at Wittenbergplatz station. She has reached her destination. She heads away from the station, walking south on Lietzenburger Strasse.

#23

The Berlin Academy of Arts and Sciences, or BAG, was the first school of its kind in Berlin. It opened its doors in 1929. Its mission was to educate the working class.

#24

Mildred’s class was called English, but its parameters extended far beyond grammar and sentence structure. She wanted to inspire her students and show them a different way of seeing the world. She lectured about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the tenets of transcendentalism, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance and courageous independence in thought and action.

#25

In 1932, the resistance in Germany is still in its infancy. It’s not even close to being a speck.

#26

Mildred, the American teacher, runs an English club in Berlin. She invites guest speakers to deliver informal talks about American politics and foreign policy. She also takes her students to see plays and sings to them.

#27

In 1932, Mildred J. Loomis, a white woman, sang songs about slavery and the slave rebellion leader John Brown to a group of German factory workers who were exhausted from working all day. She was completely unselfconscious, singing so freely and naturally that their embarrassment gave way to relief and eventually tender respect.

#28

One morning, Mildred and Arvid pack a small suitcase and take a train south to Baden. There, they check into an inn on the edge of the Black Forest. The woods are known to have inspired the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales.

#29

In 1933, Mildred had lived in Hasenheide 61 for six months. She loved the apartment, and was paid nearly nothing for her translations. She taught a class at the Commercial University, an uninspired institution that shared nothing of the BAG’s vision.

#30

On January 30, 1933, the Nazis held a victory parade in Berlin. The SA and the SS marched with torches, and Hitler was beside himself with excitement. He had just been appointed chancellor of Germany.

#31

Arvid Harnack, a friend of Wolfgang’s father, took him to the torchlight parade that night. He was determined to rescue his nephew from his father’s malevolent influence. He believed Germany was on the ascent now that Hitler was in power.

#32

On January 6, 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young pastor in Berlin, spoke out against Hitler on the radio. His microphone was cut off abruptly, and all people heard was a thick band of static.

#33

Hitler was sworn in as chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. He convened his first cabinet meeting five hours later. The DNVP, led by Alfred Hugenberg, was mostly made up of aristocrats and wealthy businessmen who disliked the populist rhetoric of the Nazi Party.

#34

Hitler’s rise to power was aided by the fact that he was very cordial and calm in his dealings with others. He suggested that the Reichstag hold a new election, which would give his right-wing coalition a majority.

#35

Many believe that Hitler is a tool of the nationalist conservatives. They believe that Hitler will be quickly exhausted due to his lack of authority.

#36

Hitler held a second cabinet meeting two days after the first, where he announced that the current Reichstag had been dissolved and that the next election would be held in March. He aimed to destroy the parliamentary democracy and grant himself dictatorial powers.

#37

Hitler’s first radio address was delivered on March 6, 1933. He praised President Hindenburg’s valor in the Great War of 1914–1918, and asked the German people to grant him four years to rebuild the country.

#38

Hitler set into motion a plan to take over Germany. The two Nazi ministers he appointed would help him execute it. Meanwhile, Hitler would invalidate the Weimar Constitution, destroy Germany’s parliamentary democracy, and engineer its complete and total transformation into a dictatorship.

#39

In 1933, the Germans who are opposed to the principles that constitute the black, beating heart of the Third Reich are dispersed among the membership rolls of trade unions and rivalrous left-wing political parties.

#40

The BAG also went to visit schools, where they would talk to young Germans about the Nazis. They would often find teenagers and young adults who were Nazis or snobs, but they would also find people in ragged clothes with thin limbs and wan faces.

#41

Greta met Mildred at the University of Wisconsin, where they both studied. They didn’t really like each other at first, but over time, they became friends.

#42

Mildred was a walking disaster in practical matters. She couldn’t iron a shirt without it ending up more wrinkled than before, or it had singe marks. She invited guests to dinner to try out a new, wonderful recipe, but forgot the most important seasonings.

#43

The rules of the hike were simple: head in a straight line, climb any fence you encounter, and swim across any lakes you come across. Mildred, who was from a poor family, told stories that surprised Greta, who had grown up poor herself.

#44

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