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Book review: The Berlin Girl

Book review: The Berlin Girl
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In The Berlin Girl, a British journalist uncovers terrible secrets in 1937 Germany

In ‘The Berlin Girl,’ a British journalist uncovers terrible secrets in 1937 Germany Bethanne Patrick © HarperCollins 360 The specter of 1930s Germany hangs over modern society, particularly when we ask how everyday citizens did little to arrest the evil in their midst. It’s a question British novelist Mandy Robotham also ponders in her new novel, “The Berlin Girl,” the story of fictional English journalist Georgina “Georgie” Young, which pays homage to real-life journalists like Sigrid Schultz, Clare Hollingworth and Martha Gellhorn (whose celebrity as “Mrs. Hemingway” eclipsed her stellar journalism). Robotham contrasts the menacing late-1937 Berlin into which Georgie arrives with the city’s principled foreign press corps, led by Chicago Herald Tribune chief Bill Porter. Students of history may recognize his inspiration as William Shirer, whose brilliant “Berlin Diary” still makes a chilling read. Not everyone fell under Hitler’

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