All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

by Rebecca Donner

On February 12, 1943, a prisoner named Irmgard Kamlah joins the others in the prison yard as they walk in pairs around its perimeter. Years later, she wrote about this day in a letter. I heard the officer accompanying us say to the supervising guard, with a glance at Mildred, “You know, no talking and she has to walk alone.”