Paul Fletcher-Tomenius

Innocence and Evil Paul Fletcher-Tomenius

"Inge looks over the rim of her coffee cup, sits back in her chair and smiles dazzlingly.""....the future looks good. I know the political situation is grim, but even Nazis need good doctors.""We are in a crisis. The Nazis are in power. I have lost many friends during the last weeks. My life is in constant danger."How can Inge and her brother, Heinz, have such different views of the political situation in 1930s Berlin, if not in the whole of Germany? Nazi oppression and the early Holocaust are already a reality. Isn't the moral dilemma similar for them both?The next twenty years leave nothing unscathed by the march of German politics. The siblings seek their own, very different paths. To fight, to die, to run, to hide; to cry, to surrender, to hate, to love; all are options. None is easy and the right choice today may not avoid the peril of tomorrow. Two decades are woven through with ever darkening shadows. Chance encounters bring love as well as tragedy. A close but ambivalent relationship develops between two friends, each from different sides of the Baltic Sea. But Brita struggles to make sense of her European experiences.