| Description | Else Rosenfeld actuality. Else begins to speak about her experience and perspective on the rise of Hitler and of the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
Track 1: Test tone, 0.11 mins
Track 2: Else sings in German, 0.44 mins
Track 3: Else recounts how the warden at the women' s prison that Else worked at asked "Haven't you got an Aryan person to come here to do your work?... You wouldn't be safe anymore here". Else then discusses how Hitler shut down any rehabilitation or social work for prisoners, 1.27 mins
Track 4: Else speaks about how although she had read 'Mein Kampf' she did not believe then what Hitler was capable of. She speaks about the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the effect that that had on the political climate of the time, 2.02 mins
Track 5: Else speaks about her and her friends disbelief at watching Hitler's rise to and accumulation of power. Else tries to recount how people were feeling in the post war economic and social depression and how Hitler was able to take advantage of this, 1.54 mins
Track 6: Else speaks of the hope that many German people put in Hitler, and how she and her friends underestimated what Hitler could achieve, 2.02 mins
Track 7 - 9: Else discusses why people may have wanted to join Hitler's National Socialist Party. She speaks that although she and her family were Jewish and did not join the party, they were not treated differently by most people. She thinks that this was because "they did not realise what it meant to belong to the party at that time, it was just another political party... all the other parties had disappointed them". She speaks about how Hitler's political rivals were taken to concentration camps.
Track 10: Else remembers some of her friends hiding in her house to try to avoid being taken to concentration camps. She speaks about how her local police force tried to help her family, and warned her that numbers of Hitler's spies were in the police force now and that she would no longer be able to hide people in her house, 1.18 mins
Track 11: Else sings in German, 0.39 mins
Total: 14.21 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0575980 |