Patron Saints
Jean McNicol, 12 May 1994
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich
by Alison Owings.
Rutgers, 494 pp., £24.95, October 1993,0 8135 1992 6 Show More
by Alison Owings.
Rutgers, 494 pp., £24.95, October 1993,
Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940
by Lisa Fittko, translated by Roslyn Theobald.
Northwestern, 160 pp., £29.95, December 1993,0 8101 1129 2 Show More
by Lisa Fittko, translated by Roslyn Theobald.
Northwestern, 160 pp., £29.95, December 1993,
“... On 1 April 1933, around two months after Hitler became Chancellor, Germans were instructed to take part in a boycott of Jewish businesses. Martha Brixius and her mother braved the SA men at the door of a shop in Marburg: It was so terrible – such a very large store and completely empty. The owner came over to us. He was so thankful that someone came ... ”