Ravensbruck by Sarah Helm

Author:Sarah Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

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*1 Once in England, Isa’s brother Erich had begun to broadcast against Hitler on the BBC and also wrote propaganda leaflets which were dropped over Germany by British and American planes. ‘As a result of this,’ Isa said, ‘I was arrested and put into Ravensbrück. My father and mother and another brother were also arrested and went to Sachsenhausen.’

*2 When Karolina’s copy of Tacitus arrived, Binz informed her that the commandant had confiscated it because it contained ‘Catholic prayers’. Puzzled, Karolina asked to see the book, which was in fact Petrarch’s sonnets. She explained to Binz these were not Catholic prayers but love poems, and she was allowed to have the book. ‘So ended what I am sure was Binz’s only encounter with Petrarch,’ commented Karolina later. ‘Presumably the phrase “Madonna mia” gave rise to the error.’

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