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Berlin Diary

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So many likes, Barb. You have the tone of the epilogue just right. A splendid cap to this most deserving story. It's entirely believable what happens to each of the characters. Sad about Barb. And you have to feel for Horst, but perhaps, like von Stauffenberg, he will get a street named after him. Sweet of Klaus to remember Barb like that.

Loved it all. It really gives the reader that sense of suspense and danger that a lot of spy novels provide. It is, I think, one of your best.
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As I have said before, I have stolen borrowed shamelessly from many films and novels in writing Berlin Diary. Here are just a few (there were more):

Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith in "Shining Through" (the idea of a naive young woman on a mission in Nazi Berlin)

Liza Minelli and Michael York in "Cabaret" (Frau Kranke's boarding house, and a prototype for Klaus in the opening shower scene)

Judy Dench and Bob Hoskins in "Mrs. Henderson Presents" (the idea of an all-nude review done in tableau style)

Erik Larsson's "In the Garden of Beasts" (the idea of an American girl getting close to Nazi bigwigs)

David R. Gillham's "City of Women" (a must read, for general atmosphere, and a great novel)

David Downing's 'station' novels on Berlin in the Nazi period (Zoo Station, Silesian Station, Stettin Station, Potsdam station, Lehrter Station, Masyrk Station). (general atmosphere again, and great story telling)
 
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Barbaria1 said:
As I have said before, I have stolen borrowed shamelessly from many films and novels in writing Berlin Diary. Here are just a few (there were more):

Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith in "Shining Through" (the idea of a naive young woman on a mission in Nazi Berlin)

Liza Minelli and Michael York in "Cabaret" (Frau Kranke's boarding house, and a prototype for Klaus in the opening shower scene)

Judy Dench and Bob Hoskins in "Mrs. Henderson Presents" (the idea of an all-nude review done in tableau style)

Erik Larsson's "In the Garden of Beasts" (the idea of an American girl getting close to Nazi bigwigs)

David R. Gillham's "City of Women" (a must read, for general atmosphere)

David Downing's 'station' novels on Berlin in the Nazi period (Zoo Station, Silesian Station, Stettin Station, Potsdam station, Lehrter Station, Masyrk Station). (general atmosphere again)
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That's quite a record of larcenies you just confessed to. And we didn't even have to torture you to get the confession. Where is the fun in that?
 
Barbaria1 said:
As I have said before, I have stolen borrowed shamelessly from many films and novels in writing Berlin Diary. Here are just a few (there were more):

Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith in "Shining Through" (the idea of a naive young woman on a mission in Nazi Berlin)

Liza Minelli and Michael York in "Cabaret" (Frau Kranke's boarding house, and a prototype for Klaus in the opening shower scene)

Judy Dench and Bob Hoskins in "Mrs. Henderson Presents" (the idea of an all-nude review done in tableau style)

Erik Larsson's "In the Garden of Beasts" (the idea of an American girl getting close to Nazi bigwigs)

David R. Gillham's "City of Women" (a must read, for general atmosphere)

David Downing's 'station' novels on Berlin in the Nazi period (Zoo Station, Silesian Station, Stettin Station, Potsdam station, Lehrter Station, Masyrk Station). (general atmosphere again)
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Crib notes available at ... Barbaria-not.net.org

An Autumn dawns production.

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Hostestly ... just kidding!

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Episode 22. Epilogue -- Whatever happened to ....?

Frau Kranke -- survived the war, although her boarding house on Bülowstrasse did not. After the war she relocated to Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin and established a new boarding house, where (true to form) she supplemented her income by informing on her guests for the Stassi.

Gerd Kutscher -- was killed in the first large (440 bombers) RAF raid on Berlin during the night of 18–19 November 1943

Max Feldstein -- closed the doors on the Apollo on 11 November 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. He fled to Paris, where he opened a cabaret and nude revue nightspot in Montmartre, which flourished after the Germans occupied the city in the summer of 1940 and became the Allies most reliable source of intelligence, extracted from the drunken Wehrmacht and SS officers who frequented the establishment's after-hours orgies. Unfortunately Max was apprehended and shipped to a concentration camp in the July 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup", the first Nazi directed raid and mass arrest of Jews in Paris by the French police

Brunhilde Teufel -- was demoted and reprimanded for her mishandling of the Moore affair. She spent the next three years smarting over the fact that she had to answer to her rival Horst von Hassel. But, when Ravensbrück opened in November 1938, she transferred there and became notorious for her brutal mistreatment of the camp’s women inmates. She was killed during the March 1945 ‘Death March’ evacuation of the camp, presumably by her surviving victims.

Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda -- was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in late September of 1936, shortly after the "Moore-Goebbels" operation debacle. In 1937 he was charged with the crimes of espionage and conspiracy. He was found guilty in the infamous "Show Trial of 21" and shot.

SS Sturmbannfuehrer Horst von Hassel -- became increasingly involved over the years with fellow German military officers opposed to the Nazi regime. He was arrested following the unsuccessful 20 July 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life. Under torture he confessed involvement in the plot, in addition to confessing his role in the 1936 “Moore-Goebbels” affair. He was hanged at Plötzensee, along with other conspirators in August of 1944.

Barbara Moore – reached Prague safely late in the afternoon of 3 August 1936. She, Klaus and Katrin enjoyed a sumptuous meal that evening in one of Prague’s best restaurants, and a most "pleasurable" night in Prague’s Grand Hotel Bohemia. The next morning she went out for a morning stroll and never returned. Official NKVD documents uncovered and made public in 2014 revealed that she was abducted and taken to Moscow, questioned and tortured in the Lubyanka, and shot.

Katrin Klein -- waited anxiously for several weeks with Klaus Erbe in the hope that Barbara would return, but then decided to make her way to Paris where she found employment as a showgirl in Max Feldstein’s Montmartre cabaret. After Feldstein’s arrest and deportation, she entered into a partnership with a young French resistance leader and Feldstein showgirl, known as Messaline, to continue the cabaret’s clandestine intelligence gathering activities.

Klaus Erbe -- eventually made his way to the U.S., where he parlayed his fluency in German along with his contacts among Nazis and Communists to land a position within the fledgling U.S. intelligence community that would eventually become known as OSS during World War II. He used his position to search unsuccessfully for word of what may have happened to Barbara Moore. After the war, he married a brown-eyed Midwestern girl and settled down in Chicago. They named their daughter "Barbara".
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An excellent epilogue to an excellent story Barb. This will surely become a crux forum classic in the archive.
Very well done!:clapping:
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A story like this couldn't have been written convingingly without making use of resources but the complex plot, the development of the characters, the perfect integration of research and external references and turning al this into a thriller is your own merit.
I think it resulted in one of your best works. I liked the historical details and the way you succeeded in evoking the general period atmosphere.
Thank you, Barb, for this chef d'oevre.
Also thanks to Windar for his contributions.
 
Barb,
I did hold back on my comments but it really was so well written!

Thank you for letting me have my fun at times!

:)
 
Repertor said:
A story like this couldn't have been written convingingly without making use of resources but the complex plot, the development of the characters, the perfect integration of research and external references and turning al this into a thriller is your own merit.
I think it resulted in one of your best works. I liked the historical details and the way you succeeded in evoking the general period atmosphere.
Thank you, Barb, for this chef d'oevre.
Also thanks to Windar for his contributions.
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Thank you for that Repertor and for all your comments along the way! :)

LittleSiss said:
Barb,
I did hold back on my comments but it really was so well written!

Thank you for letting me have my fun at times!

:)
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Well you did make a perfect Katrin Klein! ;)

Thanks for playing along Siss.
 
Great work, Barb.
I would have liked it if your character had gone out for her walk and never come back, it would have left us wondering, left us with a sliver of hope for her.
Sorry to see poor Horst get his.
 
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