LEADER 03845nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910968456803321 005 20251116162755.0 010 $a1-280-12856-9 010 $a9786613532442 010 $a1-61249-211-8 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046147 035 $a(OCoLC)787852074 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10546082 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000585476 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11397025 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585476 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571744 035 $a(PQKB)10657533 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3119191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546082 035 $a(OCoLC)922968809 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3119191 035 $a(BIP)46372063 035 $a(BIP)108890952 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046147 100 $a20111118d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrowns, crosses, and stars $emy youth in Prussia, surviving Hitler, and a life beyond /$fby Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller, Baroness von Sell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. $cPurdue University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (349 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a1-61249-912-0 311 08$a1-55753-618-X 327 $apt. 1. They even closed the candy store -- pt. 2. Destruction unlimited -- pt. 3. The promised land. 330 $aThis is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage to Pastor Martin Niemoeller, to conversion to Judaism. Born during the turbulent days of the Weimar Republic, the author was the goddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (to whom her father was financial advisor). During her teenage years, she witnessed the rise of the Third Reich and her familys resistance to it, culminating in their involvement in Operation Valkyrie, the ill-fated attempt to assassinate Hitler and form a new government. At wars end, she worked with British Intelligence to uncover Nazis leaders. Keeping a promise to her father, she left Germany for a new life in the United States in the 1950s, working for NBC and raising her son in the exciting world of New York, only to return to Germany as the wife of Martin Niemoeller, the voice of religious resistance during the Third Reich and of German guilt and conscience in the postwar decades. Upon her husbands death in 1984 she returned to America, after having converted to Judaism in London, and turned yet another page by becoming an active public speaker and author. The title reflects a story of three parts: Crowns, the world of nobility in which the author was raised; Crosses, her life with Martin Niemoeller and his battles with the Third Reich; and Stars, the spiritual journey that brought her to Judaism. 606 $aAristocracy (Social class)$zGermany$zPrussia$vBiography 606 $aSpouses of clergy$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, German 606 $aJewish converts$vBiography 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aPrussia (Germany)$vBiography 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945$vBiography 615 0$aAristocracy (Social class) 615 0$aSpouses of clergy 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aJewish converts 615 0$aImmigrants 676 $a943.086092 676 $aB 700 $aNiemo?ller$b Sybil von Sell$f1923-$01865613 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968456803321 996 $aCrowns, crosses, and stars$94472756 997 $aUNINA