Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich (1901–1977) was a fighter in the German resistance to Nazism, a journalist and author. After the Nazis came to power, she and her partner Leo Borchard founded the resistance group »Onkel Emil«, which helped those persecuted by the Nazi regime by hiding them, providing them with food and procuring false papers. The group also campaigned for people sentenced to death, including Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. In 1948, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich moved to Munich, where she married the director of the Munich University Polyclinic, Walter Seitz. Ruth Andreas-Friedrich died by suicide on 17 September 1977.
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich (1901–1977) was a fighter in the German resistance to Nazism, a journalist and author. After the Nazis came to power, she and her partner Leo Borchard founded the resistance group »Onkel Emil«, which helped those persecuted by the Nazi regime by hiding them, providing them with food and procuring false papers. The group also campaigned for people sentenced to death, including Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. In 1948, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich moved to Munich, where she married the director of the Munich University Polyclinic, Walter Seitz. Ruth Andreas-Friedrich died by suicide on 17 September 1977.
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Year of Publication: 1947
Ruth Andreas-FriedrichYear of Publication: 1947
Berlin Underground. Battleground Berlin
In her moving diaries, journalist Ruth Andreas-Friedrich (1901–1977) talks about resistance against the Nazi regime, the difficult everyday life during the war and the years that...
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Schauplatz Berlin (Battleground Berlin, 1962):
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