Norman Ohler
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, it was extremely dangerous.
I mean, the chances of succeeding are quite small because the system was extremely strong.
And if you'd made a joke about Hitler and the wrong person heard it, like in a restaurant and would, uh,
rat on you, you would land in the concentration camp.
So people were very, very careful.
Also at parties with like Hau and Libertas and she was singing and they were drinking and dancing.
And then suddenly the political discussion started.
That's, you know, you have to have guts to then actually not leave the party, but to stay because they were risking their lives basically.
As soon as they would be found out, they would be dead.
Yeah.
And people don't want to die when they're like in their mid twenties.
They were all, they were, they were pretty young.
And, and also Libertas, she would often say like, we can't win.
You know, it's why, why are we risking our lives for like, for like what, you know?
So one time they did a, um,
Klebezettelaktion Klebezettel like they produced because one guy had access to a printing press and they produced leaf like small papers that had glue on one side and the paper said um
What the Nazis did, they set up a huge exhibition hall, which was called the Soviet Paradise.
This exhibition hall was in the center of Berlin.
I'd never heard about this before.
I found this when I researched the Bohemians.