The knock on the front door was faint. When I opened it, no one was there. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a wicker basket on the tiled floor. I folded the two handles down and lifted the thatched ...

On the evening of March 5, 1933, the inhabitants of Oberstdorf, a Bavarian village some 100 miles southwest of Munich, began making their way to the marketplace, eager to hear what their mayor had to ...

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