American defeats, or the melancholy of John Dos Passos
Countess Katharina and Gestapo head Rudolf Diels
Erich Kästner's broken promise
Erika Mann, her "beloved lunatic" and an unpleasant reunion
William Shirer and the good Wehrmacht general
Alfred Döblin's didactic deception: the phantom resident of Schloss Faber-Castell
Janet Flanner and the cross-examination of Hermann Göring
The French Stalinism of Elsa Triolet
Willy Brandt, Markus Wolf and the Katyn Massacre
Rebecca West's doomed affair
Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's shadow and the shock of Dachau
Painting to escape the horror: Wolfgang Hildesheimer and the Einsatzgruppen Trial
A kind of afterword: Golo Mann's plea for Rudolf Hess.
