WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS A RADICAL, PACIFIST, VEGETARIAN EDUCATION-MINDED NOBLE-WOMAN with a ROMANTIC-REALIST, DEPRESSIVE-HUMORIST NATIONALIST GERMAN WRITER? ANTI-FASCIST FICTION from A NAZI COLLABORATOR GOOFY SWABIAN FOLK TALES & More

Witness the paroxysm of enthusiasm she (Isolde Kurz) let stand in her late, 1938 Pilgrimage: “Who could have told me then that a day would arrive when Olympiad would come to Berlin, a day on which a new German Reich – not one that was rich and triumphant, but one that was maimed and bled dry and could hardly raise itself up out of the most terrible of all crushing defeats – would, through the mouth of its Führer, give its promise freely through its own sacrifices to lay...