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

memorial was held at the Harnack House, erected the previous year with funds provided by the state of Prussia to serve as a meeting place for esteemed scientists, artists, ambassadors, and public intellectuals. A guest book over the years boasted the names of several Nobel Prize winners: the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore; the German physicists Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg. Here, in a stately hall named after Goethe, Einstein presented his theory of relativity for the very first time. How much has changed since then—and how rapidly. On February 4, 1935, high-ranking Nazis, including Goebbels and Hitler himself, gathered at the Harnack House to attend the opening of the German national film archive—the Reichsfilmarchiv—the first of its kind, a Nazi triumph.