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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Alone in Berlin about Otto, German, Nazi with the genre: Literature & Fiction.
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conversations.value: Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he's shocked into an extraordinary act of resistance, and starts to drop anonymous postcards attacking Hitler across the city. If caught, he will be executed. Soon this silent campaign comes to the attention of ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. Who loses, pays with their life.
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conversations.value: Who loses, pays with their life.. Soon this silent campaign comes to the attention of ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. If caught, he will be executed. But when he discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he's shocked into an extraordinary act of resistance, and starts to drop anonymous postcards attacking Hitler across the city.Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story titled Alone in Berlin about Otto, German, Nazi with the genre: Literature & Fiction.
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conversations.value: Alone in Berlin (film): In 1940, a working-class couple in World War II-era Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, decide to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, after receiving the news of the death of their only son.\nAn additional impetus for their growing resistance to the regime is the fate of an old Jewish woman living in their building.\nThough the official deportation of Jews to death camps had not yet started, Jews have no recourse to any legal protection.\nRuthless Nazis - and "non-ideological" common criminals - use the opportunity to loot the old woman\'s apartment with impunity.\nDespite the efforts of the Quangels\' and other kind neighbors to help her, the persecution ends with the old woman jumping to her death from a high floor window.\nImpelled by all this, the couple starts writing postcards to urge people to stand against Hitler and the Nazis and protest against them, and furtively placing the cards in public places.\nAt first, Otto wants to do it all by himself, warning Anna "They hang women, too.\n" She, however, insists on taking part in this dangerous activity.\nWhile in the beginning of the film the couple\'s marriage seems to have dried up, being unable to console each other for the loss of their son, their shared risk and commitment brings them back closer, in effect falling in love with each other all over again.\nEscherich is the police inspector charged with finding the source of the postcards.\nHe is a professional police detective, acting out of professional pride rather than Nazi ideology.\nDuring three years of painstakingly gathering clues about the "Hobgoblin" (as he calls the mysterious writer of the postcards) he develops an increasing respect for this elusive unknown opponent.\nWith the lack of progress in his investigation, Escherich is beaten up by the obviously impatientS.\nSenior Officer, and is further forced thereby, to execute extra-judicially, a man whom he is certain has no connection with these subversive postcards.\nFinally, Otto Quangel is arrested due to the accidental fall of postcards out of his pocket, while at work.\nHe remains though stoic about the certain death sentence awaiting him, and only tries in vain to take all the blame on himself and save Anna.\nAfter the couple has been executed, Escherich is alone in his office.\nHe gathers up all of the couple\'s hundreds of subversive postcards, scatters them out of the open window of the police headquarters, and shoots himself.\nThe film ends with the image of the postcards swirling in the wind, falling down on the Berlin streets and picked up by passers by - giving the film\'s protagonists a posthumous moral victory.
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conversations.value: Alone in Berlin (film): In 1940, a working-class couple in World War II-era Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, decide to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, after receiving the news of the death of their only son.\nAn additional impetus for their growing resistance to the regime is the fate of an old Jewish woman living in their building.\nThough the official deportation of Jews to death camps had not yet started, Jews have no recourse to any legal protection.\nRuthless Nazis - and "non-ideological" common criminals - use the opportunity to loot the old woman\'s apartment with impunity.\nDespite the efforts of the Quangels\' and other kind neighbors to help her, the persecution ends with the old woman jumping to her death from a high floor window.\nImpelled by all this, the couple starts writing postcards to urge people to stand against Hitler and the Nazis and protest against them, and furtively placing the cards in public places.\nAt first, Otto wants to do it all by himself, warning Anna "They hang women, too.\n" She, however, insists on taking part in this dangerous activity.\nWhile in the beginning of the film the couple\'s marriage seems to have dried up, being unable to console each other for the loss of their son, their shared risk and commitment brings them back closer, in effect falling in love with each other all over again.\nEscherich is the police inspector charged with finding the source of the postcards.\nHe is a professional police detective, acting out of professional pride rather than Nazi ideology.\nDuring three years of painstakingly gathering clues about the "Hobgoblin" (as he calls the mysterious writer of the postcards) he develops an increasing respect for this elusive unknown opponent.\nWith the lack of progress in his investigation, Escherich is beaten up by the obviously impatientS.\nSenior Officer, and is further forced thereby, to execute extra-judicially, a man whom he is certain has no connection with these subversive postcards.\nFinally, Otto Quangel is arrested due to the accidental fall of postcards out of his pocket, while at work.\nHe remains though stoic about the certain death sentence awaiting him, and only tries in vain to take all the blame on himself and save Anna.\nAfter the couple has been executed, Escherich is alone in his office.\nHe gathers up all of the couple\'s hundreds of subversive postcards, scatters them out of the open window of the police headquarters, and shoots himself.
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conversations.value: Alone in Berlin
  All quotations from Fallada's letters are from the copies held by the Hans Fallada Archive in Carwitz. All translations are my own.
  All quotations from Fallada's essay about the Hampels are from Fallada, 'Über den doch vorhandenen Widerstand der Deutschen gegen den Hitlerterror' in Wir haben nicht nur das Chaos, sondern wir stehen an einem Beginn: Hans Fallada 1945–1947, ed. Sabine Lange (Neubrandenburg: Literaturzentrum Neubrandenburg, 1988) pp. 45–56. All translations are my own.
  The extant files in the cases of the Hampels and Alfred Schmidt are held by the 'Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR' of the Federal Archive in Lichterfelde, Berlin. The files on the Hampels are NJ36/2, NJ36/3, NJ36/4, and ZC12614; the files on Schmidt are NJ1705/1, NJ1705/2, NJ1705/4 and NJ5110/1.
  Manfred Kuhnke's study of the factual Hampels and the fictional Quangels is Die Hampels und die Quangels: Authentisches und Erfundenes in Hans Falladas letztem Roman (Neubrandenburg: Literaturzentrum Neubrandenburg, 2001).
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conversations.value: Manfred Kuhnke's study of the factual Hampels and the fictional Quangels is Die Hampels und die Quangels: Authentisches und Erfundenes in Hans Falladas letztem Roman (Neubrandenburg: Literaturzentrum Neubrandenburg, 2001).
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conversations.value: What follows is material from the Gestapo file given to Hans Fallada by Johannes Becher. It includes documents from the initial police investigation as well as from the Gestapo's own investigation. It was the main basis for the case against Elise and Otto Hampel presented in the People's Court – where the Nazis held their show trials – before the President of the Court, Roland Freisler. The Hampels were found guilty and sentenced to death, and executed by beheading in Plotenzee Prison in March 1943.