Two young people in Germany in the 1930s, both intellectuals, both humanists, both artists, both writers with a sense of mission, both in intellectual resistance to a National Socialism that killed the spirit - and both suddenly succumbed to the fascination of Adolf Hitler. Why? The daughter of these two has compiled a gripping portrait, almost a novel, from their letters, diaries, literary experiments and her own memories - not least a shocking testimony to the traumatisation of the 'Hitler child' Dagmar Kötscher.