The Lost Boys

by Catherine Bailey

  3 Like Isa, Kurt and Petra Vermehren were arrested after their son, Dr Erich Vermehren, joined the BBC to broadcast anti-Nazi propaganda.

  Chapter 36

  1 Stiller was a first lieutenant, Bader a second lieutenant.

  Chapter 37

  1 Armeeoberkommando 19, a unit of the German High Command.

  Chapter 39

  1 The state organization for the people’s welfare.

  2 Established by the SS in 1935 to inculcate children of those deemed to be ‘racially pure and healthy’ with Nazi ideology.

  3 The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

  Chapter 41

  1 One of the most venerated saints of the late Middle Ages, Leonard of Noblac was thought to be a sixth-century Frankish nobleman and the godson of Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty. According to legend, prisoners who invoked St Leonard from their cells saw their chains break before their eyes.

  Epilogue

  1 Freisler was killed by a direct hit on the court building by a US plane on 3 February 1945.

  2 Fey died on 12 February 2010 – almost four years after Detalmo, who died in March 2006 at the age of ninety-one.