A different kind of courage : Gretel's story
Strachan, Claudia2009
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. The spellbinding account by an attractive and feisty young woman who witnessed personally Hitler's racist spite at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and had to endure the shock of the disappearance of her best friend and her family during Kristallnact. She allied herself to the German resistance fighters, passing on secrets learnt from her work on the Enigma decoding machines, and she received all the conflicting messages coming in on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler in 1944 by Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators, many of whom she knew personally. Gretel stayed in Hamburg throughout the war, suffering the constant bombing of the city by the Allies, helping the local Catholic priest to protect those being hunted by the SS, and was almost exposed by a 'house spy', when hiding her Jewish doctor in the coal cellar of her own house. Arrested finally by the SS in 1945 and taken to an internment camp, she was liberated by the British Army.
Main title:
A different kind of courage : Gretel's story / Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2009.
Collation:
269 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781845965105 (pbk)1845965108 (pbk)
Dewey class:
943.086092B/WAC
Language:
English
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BRN:
166126