An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city – including the author’s father – survived fascism An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city – including the author’s father – survived fascism I n December 1941, the Nazi authorities received a letter from a soldier complaining that, on his recent leave in Berlin, he had been thoroughly disgusted by what he saw. While his comrades were dying at the front, plenty of young men appeared to have dodged military duty