Author’s Notes
Dear Reader,
Thanks so much for reading WAR GIRL LOTTE.
If you’ve read War Girl Ursula, you probably knew that Lotte was a disaster waiting to happen. Her love of justice and outspokenness would sooner or later get her into trouble.
Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp exclusively for women (although in 1941 a small section for men was added), and at the same time it is the most forgotten camp in history, since it was “only” a concentration camp, meant to punish the inmates, not a death camp like Auschwitz or Treblinka. It was also one of the few camps, where the majority of the inmates wasn’t Jewish, for the simple reason that Jews were sent to Auschwitz to be gassed.
“Ravensbrück was an abomination that the world has resolved to forget.” (Francois Mauriac).
