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

CIA director Allen Dulles would later observe that resistance groups in France and other German-occupied countries received large-scale support from powerful allies. Arms and supplies were smuggled to them, they maintained more or less organized liaison with foreign powers, or with their own governments in exile, which could give them assistance, help them organize, inform them, instruct them, render them financial aid, and last but most important, give them the hope and moral support that kept alive their faith in ultimate deliverance. Dulles admitted, “The West did not take too seriously the pleas of those anti-Nazi Germans who tried to enlighten it.”