A DIFFERENT KIND OF COURAGE: GRETEL’S STORY

Book ID/图书代码： 08430008B28375

English Summary/英文概要： "A Different Kind of Courage" is the spellbinding account by an attractive and feisty young woman who witnessed personally Hitler’s racist spite at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and had to endure the shock of the disappearance of her best friend and her family during Kristallnact, the night of atrocities against the Jews. She allied herself to the German resistance fighters, passing on secrets learnt from her work on the Enigma decoding machines, and she received all the conflicting messages coming in on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler in 1944 by Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators, many of whom she knew personally. Gretel stayed in Hamburg throughout the war, suffering the constant bombing of the city by the Allies, helping the local Catholic priest to protect those being hunted by the SS, and was almost exposed by a ’house spy’, when hiding her Jewish doctor in the coal cellar of her own house. Arrested finally by the Gestapo in 1945 and taken to an internment camp, she was liberated by the British Army. When the Allies march towards Hamburg, the camp is dissolved and Gretel returns home. She falls in love with a handsome British officer, living life as best as she can in the ruins of Hamburg, until he asks her to come to England and marry him. Destined to be a classic in the tradition of "The Diary of Anne Frank", "A Different Kind of Courage" is a story of indomitable spirit and determination that will inspire and enthrall.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 刺殺希特勒行動的最後一名倖存者

1944年7月20日，一批對納粹深惡痛絕的秘密組織密謀策劃了暗殺希特勒的行動，他們是由一群德國軍人組成，由Gretel Wachtel擔任唯一女性解碼員的軍事團隊。
當時這一批德國高階將領，感到他們生活在一個罪犯國家，為了想要結束戰爭，解放集中營，這群刺客清楚知道「希特勒刺殺行動」，即使行刺計劃成功了，他們仍可能被絞死，因為當時許多德國人仍對希特勒盲目地崇拜。可是他們認為如果不殺死希特勒，只要他統治德國一日，就會有成千上萬的德國士兵毫無意義地死去；就會有無數猶太人、波蘭人、俄羅斯人被趕進納粹集中營處死。
然而這群德國將領，雖然成功將一枚炸彈放在希特勒的司令部，但炸彈只炸死4人。死裡逃生的希特勒，立即展開報復，幾乎所有參與這一暗殺行動的德國軍人全都被捕，慘遭酷刑虐待而死。這場血腥的報復，共有5000多名男女先後因為這次未遂刺殺案而被逮捕處決，其中許多人根本就沒有直接參與這次暗殺計劃，但也慘遭殺害。
本書作者Gretel Wachtel是少數幾名逃過納粹報復的倖存參與者之一，她也是「希特勒刺殺行動」的最後一位倖存成員。2005年90歲的Gretel在英國離開人世。透過她的眼睛與陳述，讀者將了解當時少數反對希特勒的德國人，他們精神與勇氣。(CL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Gretel Wachtel was born in Germany in 1915 and was 24 years old when the Second World War broke out. She moved to England in 1945, where she remained until her death in 2005. Claudia Strachan was born in Germany and moved to England in 1993. After meeting Gretel, who shared with her stories about her time in Hamburg during the Second World War, she spent the next nine years researching the historical background of Gretel’s story.

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