Chloë Daniel

Chloë Daniel lives in Berlin and blogs about Germany.

The Good Swimmer: Survival in Nazi Germany

Chloë Daniel, 3 November 2016

The German word​ for ‘submerged’ is untergetaucht; it’s also the original title of Marie Jalowicz Simon’s memoir, which has been published in English as Gone to Ground. The term has come to be used of the 15,000 or so Jews who attempted to remain undiscovered in Nazi Germany during the war – they called themselves ‘U-Boats’. Half of them were in...

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