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Jean McNicol

  • Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings
    Rutgers, 494 pp, £24.95, October 1993, ISBN 0 8135 1882 2
  • Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940 by Lisa Fittko, translated by Roslyn Theobald
    Northwestern, 160 pp, £29.95, December 1993, ISBN 0 8101 1129 2

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:

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