David R. Gillham CITY OF WOMEN

To Ludmilla

Take hold of kettle, broom, and pan,

then you’ll surely get a man!

Shop and office leave alone,

Your true life’s work lies at home.

—COMMON GERMAN RHYME OF THE 1930s

“Who will ever ask in three or five hundred years’ time whether a Fräulein Muller or Schulze was unhappy?”

—HEINRICH HIMMLER, REICHSFÜHRER OF THE SS AND CHIEF OF THE GERMAN POLICE, CIRCA 1941

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