Helena P. Schrader

Award-Winning Novelist Helena P. Schrader describes people she met during her research on the German Resistance to Hitler. For more information about the novel, An Obsolete Honor, and the German Resistance to Hitler, visit her website at: An Obsolete Honor.

She was a quiet, unassuming woman, apparently the perfect "Hausfrau" – housewife – to a famous man Her husband Eberhard Bethge was famous because he had been Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s closest friend, his confidant and his disciple

“The survivors of a failed coup are never its heroes,” Axel Baron von dem Bussche told me the first time we met, but by most standards Bussche was a hero At the age of 24, while a captain in the German Army, Bussche agreed to carry out a suicide-bombing against Adolfits ambulances,” the suspension letter read.

Delran Emergency Squad was founded in 1939, according to its website. The squad includes volunteer members and paid staff for daytime services. It also serves as a statewide training facility.

From January to April of this year, DES responded to 1,529 calls. It responded to 4,918 calls in 2017.

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