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with her four children while her husband was away at war. Initially introduced by her alias "Felice Schröder", she eventually grew close enough to Wust to confide in her. Telling Wust her true name and revealing her history as a Jewish member of the German
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It was the tenderest love you could imagine.... I was fairly experienced with men, but with Felice I reached a far deeper under-standing of sex than ever before. ... There was an immediate attraction, and we flirted outrageously. ... I began to feel alive as I never had before....She was my other
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Facing increased scrutiny by Nazi officials for her resistance work in 1942, Schragenheim was introduced by an acquaintance, who was employed as a housekeeper in the Berlin household of Günther Wust, a Nazi soldier, to Wust's wife, Charlotte
Elisabeth "Lilly" Wust, who was residing in
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During the early to mid-1990s, Lilly Wust sold the rights to the story of her love affair with Felice
Schragenheim to Austrian journalist Erica Fischer, who studied Schragenheim's poetry and the couple's letters, researched the couple's lives further, and then wrote the 1994 book,
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half, literally my reflection, my mirror image, and for the first time I found love aesthetically beautiful, and so tender. ... Twice since she left, I've felt her breath, and a warm presence next to me. I dream that we will meet again - I live in hope.
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at the time of her 2001 interview with Lilly Wust. After their introduction, Schragenheim "would come to tea at Lilly's almost daily, bringing flowers and poems. In between, the two would write to each other." When Wust was hospitalized with dental
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Schragenheim was reported to Nazi officials and captured by the
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in March 1943, Schragenheim "brought red roses every day.... On March 25, the two became 'engaged', signing written declarations of their love, which they sealed with a marriage contract three months later."
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November 1944 and January 1945, the mass extermination in Auschwitz came to an end, gradually. The inmates, including Schragenheim, were taken on a
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