People, Places and Events
From the Book
People the Author Knew or Met Personally
Paul Bohnardt (Bonart, the Author)
Bertha (Bertha Rode)
Father (Albin Bohnhardt - mechanic at railroad)
Mother (Berta Bohnhardt)
Grandparents
Paul (Paul Sauer, uncle, brother of Mother)
Alfred (classmate that took tests at Zeiss)
Reinhold Grüttner (in charge of apprentices - studied Psychology at U of Götingen - worked at Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Brain research)
Lore (ISK social worker, later Eleanore Buenning)
Erwin Bünning (assistant professor of botany got international recognition)
Curt (Kurt Pfotenhauer - tailor from Weimar, adored Lore)
Frida (Wife of Karl)
Gertrud (Wife of Adolf)
Karl (arrested Communist patron of the barber shop in Jena)
Adolf (arrested Communist patron of the barber shop in Jena)
Dr. Robert Ley
Zipler (chairman of Nazi "Works Council" in the Zeiss factory in Jenna)
Marrenbach (Dr. Ley's assistant)
Mr. Busch (editor of the newspaper Deutschen)
Dr. Frauenhofer (Government official with Dr. Ley)
Hellmut Rauschenplat (ISK leader aka Fritz Eberhard)
Erna (Erna Mros, Monica Kakies)
Walter (Walter Brandt? ISK contact in Hamburg - was tortured and hung himself in Dachau camp to protect others)
Hans (ISK contact number 2 - associated with Walter Brandt)
Dora (landlord Dora Jeremais)
Fritz Grob (arrested 1/5/1935)
Minna Specht
Julius Philippson (aka Jürgen)
Gestapo arresting Officer
Erich Irmer (arrested with Paul)
Curt (underground worker from another group of 5 that got arrested)
Two brothers (the first two arrested)
Warden at Luckau (Der Löwe)
Walter (frist prisoner met in Luckau, editor of Berlin communist youth newspaper )
Hans Jendretzky
Chauffer of Thälmann
Guard in Luckau in charge of non-belivers
"Doctor" Spiritual leader of Jehovah's Witnesses
Ernst (Leader of Socialist Youth gave Paul 20 Mark.. )
Dr. Kleefeld (Jewish physician in Erfurt)
Nathan (Paul's father's friend - Jewish conductor of chorus, medal of honor winner)
Miss Eisfeld (Boss' secretary)
Bertha's sister and Brother-in-law
Mr. Lott (Nazi Party rep. at Zeiss?)
Erwin Collatz
Heinrich (worked with Reinhold in Göttingen underground, lost leg in WWI)
Käthe (Bertha's younger sister)
Willi Eichler
Hanna Bertholet-Fortmüller
Mary Saran (Maria Hodann)
Alan Flanders
Edith Moore
Walter and Jenny Fleiss (British owners of a Vegetarian restaurant)
Hilde Meisel (Socialist Vanguard, killed trying to re-enter Germany)
Field Ellis
Mr. Gustave Husson (Gus, export manager at B&L)
Erwin Uhlmann
Mr. Taylor (president of B&L)
Fred Köeher
Sylvio Pinho
Dr. Nabuco (Lawyer)
Other people mentioned in the book:
Carl Zeiss
Ernst Abbe
Leonard Nelson
Kant
Jacob Friedrich Fries
Albert Einstein, Heinrich Mann, Käthe Kollwitz, Erich Kästner
Franz von Papen
Von Schleicher
Von Neurath
Kirk von Schleicher
Hindenburg
Hermann Göring
Cardinal Eugino Pacelli (Pope Pius XII)
Oliver Holmes
Chancellor Brüning
Adolf Hitler (Führer)
Il Duce
Joseph Göbbels
William Shirer (Author of "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich")
Pastor Neimöller
General Ludendorff
Ernst Röhm (commander of SA)
Himmler
Adolf Wagner (Bavarian Minister of the Interior)
Dr. Hans Frank, Commissioner of Justice
Strasser
Thalmänn
Mussolini
Max Hodann (DR. and former husband of Mary Saran)
President Roosevelt
Elanor Roosevelt
Getulio Vargas (met later?)
Oswaldo Aranha
Groups and Organizations
Schott (glass factory)
Carl Zeiss Foundation
Ernst Abbe Home
Free Trade Union
Social Democratic Party
Communists
German Reichbank
ISK
Weimar (the city near Jena)
Three Arrow organization (Social Democrats)
Reichstag (parliament)
Storm Troopers
Brownshirts
Black Shirts
S.S.
S.A.
Stahlhelm (steel helmets)
Burschenschaften (Student associations of the wealthy)
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (new German labor organization headed by dr. Ley)
Deutsch Nationale Volks Partei (Right wing)
National Socialists
Weimar Republic
Deutsch Volks Partei (right of center)
Zentrum Party (centrist party of Catholics)
Spartacists (radical group of socialists in 1919)
Ulanen (Lancers - a Calvary unit in WWI)
Nazi Youth Organization
Academy for Political Leadership (Minna Specht)
Communist Opposition Party
SAP (Left wing of Social Democrats)
Okulus
Erwin Collatz and Co.
Labour Party (England)
Bausch and Lomb
Rochester Eastman Kodak
Places Mentioned in the Book
Neu Daberstedt (birth place)
Erfurt (State of Thuringia, Germany)
Jena
Saale river
Hamburg
Botanical Gardens (Jena)
Dachau Concentartion Camp
Thüringer Wald (town where he vited in 1933)
Berlin-Dahlem
Prussia
Soviet Union
Munich
University of Marburg
Hanslbauer Hotel in Wiesee
The Vega (vegetarian restaurant in Hamburg)
Farnkfurt
Berlin
Cologne
Paris
London
Saar territory
Kassel (city in germany)
Göttingen University
Alexander Platz
Moabit Prison of Detention
Plöatzensee (prison of execution of Communist cell neighbor)
Maximum Security Prison in Luckau
Hanover
Tempelhof Airport
Tiergarten Park
Hofbräu Hais in Munich
Zeller Lake
Basel
Rhine River
Switzerland
Holzhausen
Thuringia
Magdelburg
Bremen
Köln
Augsburg
Stuttgart
Boulogne
Folkston
Walkemühle School, Academy (ISK)
Denmark
Welwyn Garden City
Rochester, NY
Buenos Aires
Liverpool
Rockefeller Center (NY)
Ulm
Strasbourg
Argentina
Leblon
State of Santa Catarina
Blumenau, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre
Copacabana
Events Mentioned in the Book
Treaty of Versailles
World War I
Hitler becomes chancellor January 30, 1933
Kapp Putsch (uprising to overthrow the government)
May 1, 1934 New day of Work
Saar Basin Referendum
Article 109 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic struck down April 1933
1937 Civil Service Political Unreliability Law
Stalin's 5 Year Plan
Stalin's 100 Year Plan
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
Voyage of the S.S. St. Louis
World War II
Other Things of Note
Reinhart Letters