One strategy she uses is to say the opposite of what she means. She’s horrified to see Hitler Youth marching in a May Day parade, but in a letter to her mother, Mildred writes: How beautiful it was. Thousands, thousands, and thousands of people marched in order singing and playing through the majestic streets.… Well, it is a very beautiful, serious thing—serious as death—and I hope it will never be perverted again! Think this over, for I want you to understand me.
