If Part 1 was opera-meets-airwaves, Part 2 is prison floors, crushed dreams, and resistance at eye level. Literally – Eva’s forbidden love with Alice survived thanks to stolen glances through a bakery window while Berlin rotted under Nazi boots.
Branded “predominantly Jewish,” shoved into prison, concussed in wooden clogs, and haunted by loss – Eva saw Alice and her sister deported to Auschwitz after their safe house was exposed. She never saw them again.
Post-war Germany? Not exactly a warm welcome. Eva’s health collapsed, her career stalled, and anonymous "Heil Germany" notes decorated her door. Oh, and her intellectual pen-pal ghosted her over a lesbian manuscript. Classic.
She called Germany a “tormenting country” and herself an "all-round complainer" – but let's be honest: she earned it.
Today, we remember Eva thanks to historians who finally gave this fierce, flawed, fabulous woman the digital memorial she deserved.
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