Martha continues to spy for Moscow Center. In years to come, she will grow accustomed to thinking of herself as a member of the German resistance, equating spying on her own father with aiding the resistance. After the war, in a passage that is as self-dramatizing as it is untrue, she will write, “We, all of us… were in the German underground from 1933 to 1943. I am the only one left.”
The mental gymnastics are absurd
