On the last day of November, she begins class by asking a question. Usually she speaks to her class in English, but today she wants to make sure her students understand perfectly. “Hitler soll Kanzler werden?” Should Hitler be chancellor? The question is provocative. One of her students, a thirty-one-year-old man named Samson Knoll, is so struck by her question and the discussion it prompts that he notes it in his diary that night.
