She develops a sly technique. Others in the Circle use it too. Pretend you’re a Nazi. Don’t beat around the bush. Tell the shopkeeper or the factory worker or the friend of a friend that you admire something Hitler did or are otherwise sympathetic to Nazi policies and see how the person responds. “The object was to lead the other person to reveal his political attitude,” her recruit Wilhelm Utech remembered. “This ‘testing’ was to be carried out very carefully, so that we did not reveal ourselves prematurely and thus endanger our work.”
