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  41. A Note from the Translator
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“Don José?” Maria fishes a key out from her clothes. “For the boathouse. You can take the boat out and go fishing. Like the men. But be careful.”

Maybe he’ll stay here.

Acknowledgments

For historical guidance, I thank Dr. Florian Altenhöner, Professor Dr. Wolfgang Krieger, Dr. Christoph Selzer, and Dr. Monika Siedentopf. I also thank Barry Moreno and Kevin Daley at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration and the amateur radio operators at the Chaos Computer Club, Berlin. Thanks also to Ernst Vranka (OE3EVA), who alerted me to a few technical inaccuracies. Not everything stands up to literary adaptation—may amateur operators forgive me!

For conversations and thoughtful reading, I thank my editor, Corinna Kroker, and also Isabel Fargo Cole, Hannah Dübgen, Rolf-Bernhard Essig, Lucy Fricke, Karin Graf, Christian Jeukens, Sünje Lewejohann, Inger-Maria Mahlke, Lydia Mechtenberg, Klaus Sellge, and Liliana Marinho de Sousa.

Finally, I owe a very special thank you to my mother, who remembered everything for my benefit.

Bibliography

For readers who wish to delve deeper into the subject, the following is a selection of books, films, and documentaries I recommend.

Nonfiction

Bernstein, Arnie. Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013.

Breuer, William. Hitler’s Undercover War: The Nazi Espionage Invasion of the USA. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.

Brown, Anthony Cave. Die unsichtbare Front: Entschieden Geheimdienste den Zweiten Weltkrieg? Munich: Desch, 1976.

Carlson, John Roy. Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943.

Duffy, Peter. Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring. New York: Scribner, 2014.

Hynd, Alan. Passport to Treason: The Inside Story of Spies in America. New York: National Travel Club, 1943.

Mader, Julius. Hitler’s Spionagegenerale sagen aus. Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1979.

Nesper, Eugen. Der Radio-Amateur “Broadcasting”: ein Lehr-und Hilfsbuch fur die Radio-Amateure aller Länder. Berlin: Springer, 1923.

Ritter, Nikolaus. Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau. Edited and translated by Katharine R. Wallace. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2019.

Siedentopf, Monika. Unternehmen Seelöwe: Widerstand im deutschen Geheimdienst. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014.

Thorwald, Jürgen. “Die unsichtbare Front.” Der Stern, March 1953.

Wighton, Charles, and Günter Peis. Hitler’s Spies and Saboteurs. London: Award Publications, 1973.

Novels

Di Donato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. New York: New American Library, 2004.

Glaeser, Ernst. Class 1902. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Gold, Michael. Jews Without Money. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009.

Miller, Arthur. Focus. New York: Avon Books, 1965.

Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Films and Documentaries

Hathaway, Henry, dir. The House on 92nd Street. Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox, 1945. 88 min.

Kirst, Michaela, dir. Zum Nazi Verdammt: Deutsche in amerikanischen Lagern. Munich: Tangram International, 2008. 52 min.

Nitvak, Anatole, dir. Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Los Angeles: Warner Bros., 1939. 104 min.

A Note from the Translator