Crowns, Crosses, and Stars: My Youth in Prussia, Surviving Hitler, and a Life Beyond

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Crowns, Crosses, and stars Crowns, Crosses, and stars My youth in Prussia, surviving hitler, and a life Beyond by Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller baroNeSS voN Sell Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana Copyright 2012 by Purdue University. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Niemoeller, Sybil von Sell, 1923Crowns , crosses, and stars : my youth in Prussia, surviving Hitler, and a life beyond / Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller, Baroness von Sell. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-55753-618-1 (paper : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-61249211 -7 (ePDF) -- ISBN 978-1-61249-210-0 (ePUB) 1. Niemoeller, Sybil von Sell, 1923- 2. Niemoeller, Sybil von Sell, 1923---Family. 3. Aristocracy (Social class)--Germany--Prussia--Biography. 4. Prussia (Germany)--Biography. 5. Niemoeller, Martin, 1892-1984. 6. Spouses of clergy--Germany--Biography. 7. Germany--History--1933-1945-Biography . 8. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German. 9. Jewish converts--Biography. 10. Immigrants--United States--Biography. I. Title. CT1098.N54A3 2012 943.086092--dc23 [B] 2011047704 I dedicate this book to my son,Ulrich Marcus Niemoeller,and in memory of those family members who chose the dangerously narrow path of resistance over indifference to evil. Some of them paid the ultimate price for their courage—my father, my mother, my husband Martin Niemoeller, and my cousin Werner von Haeften. Their lives and their memories are my greatest blessing. ...