In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a Jewish girl hiding in Berlin, watched as a barkeep sold her for 15 marks to a man mysteriously nicknamed "the rubber director." As Marie recounts in the
recently published Underground in Berlin,
a riveting chronicle of her story told in her words, she was desperate
for a place to sleep. The barkeep pulled Marie aside before she left
with the man. Her fabricated backstory was simple; she just couldn't
bear to live with her in-laws anymore. But, the barkeep added, her new
patron was also "a Nazi whose fanaticism bordered on derangement."
-Smithsonian
