Norman Ohler

And the group at one point realizes that they've been basically found out and but then it's already too late.

Then they capture quite a few of them and quite a few get trial, military trial and receive the death penalty.

and are also being executed.

And Haro and Libertas are among them.

And also that last chapter of their lives is very well documented.

And it actually ends with that letter that I found in the beginning.

That's the last thing that Haro does, is write that letter.

To his father.

That's very interesting what happens with Libertas, because she gets in custody.

The Gestapo asks one of their secretaries, Gertrude Breiter, to go in and pose as a friend to Libertas and Libertas actually falls for it and starts telling that secretary who pretends to be her friend and kind of helps her with certain things, tells her secrets and that kind of breaks the neck of the group.

It's a very tragic ending.

So while my books always contain as much humor as possible, that is not a funny story, but it's a very dramatic story.

Even though they had a lot of humor, obviously, I mean, they had parties to recruit people.

I just think it's admirable to be brave and not do things that you cannot really justify in front of your own conscience.

I don't know if I would have been so brave.

I don't even know obviously how my conscience would have been, but...

I'm probably more the fleeing type.

Like a lot of writers would just leave Germany.

Like Thomas Mann just left Germany and lived in Pacific Palisades.

And then maybe write, criticize, but leave first.