![]() ![]() Menaced throughout by the Gestapo (who are also operating in London), Fabian and another group member are found dead in their flat. ![]() She contacts a prominent Nazi who leaks crucial documents from Germany. In London, Fabian stages a rival trial and arranges for witnesses to be smuggled out of Germany. After the burning of the Reichstag, Hitler prepares a show trial in Berlin. The story is very interesting: after Hitler comes to power in 1933, Blatt, Toller and Fabian, along with Blatt's husband, Hans Wesemann, flee to London, where they continue with their resistance work. ![]() The group's central figures were Blatt, her cousin Dora Fabian and the playwright Ernst Toller. All That I Am, too, is inspired by fact – drawn from interviews, memoirs and autobiographies detailing the lives of a group of (mostly) Jewish Germans who resisted Hitler in the 1930s. ![]() "T his vast life – the real, interior one, in which we remain linked to the dead… this vast life is not under our control." These are the words of Ruth Blatt, one of two narrators in Anna Funder's first novel, the follow-up to her acclaimed non-fiction debut, Stasiland, which won the Samuel Johnson prize in 2004. ![]()
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