The book of memoirs ‘Underground in Berlin’ tells the unusual story of Marie Jalowicz, who defied the Third Reich without leaving Berlin, circumventing the Gestapo and enduring rape, freezing conditions and hunger
Comparisons with the 1930s are lazy, says John Kampfner. But on the anniversary of the brutal Nazi pogrom Kristallnacht, and in the shadow of the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, he travels to Berlin to talk to a Holocaust survivor’s son who is shocked by the rising tide of violent antisemitism in Germany and across Europe
Any period of Berlin s turbulent history makes for a compelling story, but right now - with the Russians attempting to crush Ukraine - none seems more poignant than those final few weeks.