The major turning point in Alone in Berlin involves a man in a wide-brimmed hat and a shifty gaze, slinking through a place he shouldn’t be, in World War II-era Berlin. It’s a government building, and he’s there to deposit a postcard on which he’s written an anti-Hitler message. He is to leave it on a staircase and disappear unnoticed, leaving its fate to chance. Wartime … [Read more...]