“I want to tell everyone that we were good Germans. Exemplary Germans”

Inge Auerbacher speaks perfect Swabian, that’s the first thing you notice when you talk to her on the phone. “Heidenei, who’s hooting everything now,” she moans into the camera of her computer, which is on a desk in an apartment building in Queens, New York. “Even Schäuble got in touch with me.”

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