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In February 1936, Daphne and Betsy, two girls from Oxford, discover the charms of
Munich in Nazi Germany. Rachel Johnson, 47, tells the unique story of young Bri,sh
women in Hitler's Third Reich from the perspec,ve of two c,onal characters. The
Bri,sh press has praised the book for being both entertaining and historically accurate.
Johnson, who is the sister of London Mayor Boris Johnson, only recently discovered that
her own family had close ,es to Nazi Germany.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Ms. Johnson, how did you nd out that some members of your family
were in Bavaria in the 1930s?
Johnson: A couple of years ago, the BBC did a program on my brother Boris and our
family history. We had always been told that my paternal grandmother was French, but
it turned out she was German. Her last name was originally von Pfeel, and we had
descendants from Munich. My maternal grandmother went to Bavaria as a schoolgirl in
the 1930s. Later, when I married, I discovered that my mother-in-law had been to
Munich at roughly the same @me.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: A strange coincidence.
Johnson: The strangest thing of all was that my mother-in-law was sent from England
to Munich in April 1938, when Hitler was already preparing to invade Czechoslovakia
and Poland. She watched as the Annexa@on of Austria took place. She even ran out to
Hitler's car.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: How did you decide to address that past in a novel?
Johnson: I did a radio documentary about the English colony in Germany before the
war, but didn't have enough for a non-c@on book. The English girls in Bavaria were
fascina@ng nonetheless, so I decided to write a novel from their perspec@ve. These girls
were there just before the outbreak of war, and in some cases they were even close to
the government, hanging out with Hitler and Hess. Sending your daughters to nishing
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satansle;hand@gmail.com 08/30/2013
11. Funny indeed...
Yes, it's funny how right-wingers like to project their own nega@ve traits onto leQists; for example, "ba ling for
dominance". Huh?! One of the core traits of leQ-leaning thinkers is a general distrust in authority and
an@-authoritarian aKtudes. And oh by the way, communism and socialism are not the same thing. -Doro
cbrad4334 09/27/2013
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This book sounds interes@ng -- as if the author had lived during the 1930s. Reading books, not Hitler himself, but
the people around him, can be quite enlightening for people studying that @me.
vicshere 05/04/2014
13. Ooops
Oh, dear. I do hope she meant "Bri@sh bravery,' rathan English.
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