What happened to Maria after Dietrich’s death bears fuller explanation than what we provide here. But the short answer to the question is that after she learned of her beloved Dietrich’s fate in the summer of 1945, Maria von Wedemeyer was understandably heartbroken. Not long afterward she left Germany for the United States, enrolling as a student at Bryn Mawr. There, far from the horrors of her recent past, she studied mathematics, as she had always planned to do, and she eventually took a position with Honeywell in Massachusetts, rising to become the head of a department there, no small
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