2021年经济学人 默默无闻的反法西斯女英雄(2)

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Harnack was tall, blonde and blue-eyed; as president of the American Women’s Club in Berlin she masqueraded as the perfect Nazi¹ wife.

哈纳克身材高大，金发碧眼；作为柏林美国妇女俱乐部的主席，她伪装成一位完美的纳粹妻子。

Meanwhile she and Arvid were funnelling² military information to Allied³ contacts abroad.

与此同时，她和阿维德正在向海外盟军联络人传递军事信息。

Even as the pressure steadily⁴ mounted, survivors⁵ would later recount, they persisted.

幸存者后来回忆说，尽管压力不断增加，但他们坚持了下来。

“Relentless Nazi brutality⁶ invigorates their conviction that they must fight back steadily, diligently⁷, without hesitation,” the author writes.

“残酷的纳粹暴行激发着他们的信念，即他们必须坚定、勤奋、毫不犹豫地反击，”作者写道。

Harnack was careful to betray nothing in her letters home.

哈纳克在她的家书中小心翼翼地不泄露任何信息。

So Ms Donner has pieced the story together from a vast array of sources.

因此，唐纳女士从大量资料中拼凑出了这个故事。

Her book is a tour de force of investigation⁸: she searched two dozen archives in America, Europe and Russia, trawling through intelligence reports and official documents, plus scores of published and unpublished memoirs⁹, diaries and letters.

她的书是调查的杰作：她搜索了美国、欧洲和俄罗斯的20多个档案馆，搜罗情报报告和官方文件，以及大量已出版和未出版的回忆录、日记和信件。

Her most precious source, however, is the memory of Donald Heath junior, who was the 11-year-old son of an American diplomat¹⁰ when he began acting¹¹ as Harnack’s secret courier.

然而，她最宝贵的信息来源是小唐纳德·希思的记忆，小唐纳德·希思是一名美国外交官的儿子，11岁时开始担任哈纳克的秘密信使。

His story fleshes out the lady with the “low, kind voice” whom he visited twice a week in 1939 on Woyrschstrasse, where she slipped notes for his father into his blue backpack.

他的故事使这位有着“低沉又和善的声音”的女士变得丰满起来。1939年，他每周去沃施斯特拉斯看望她两次，就是在那里，她把写给他父亲的纸条塞进了他的蓝色背包。

The couple’s commitment to defying the dictator who was wrecking¹² the country they called home shines through.

这对夫妇决心反抗独裁者的承诺闪耀着光芒，这位独裁者正在破坏他们称之为家的国家。

Arvid was a nephew of a scholar who helped draft the Weimar constitution, part of an intellectual clan¹³ that became a “Who’s Who” of resistance to Hitler.

阿维德是一位帮助起草魏玛宪法的学者的侄子，这位学者是一个知识分子家族的成员，这个家族后来成为抵抗希特勒的“名流”。

His cousins the Bonhoeffers, Delbrücks and Ernst von Harnack participated in the most famous attempt on Hitler’s life, the failed military “Valkyrie” plot of 1944.

他的堂兄弟邦霍费尔兄弟、德尔布吕克和恩斯特·冯·哈纳克参与了最著名的刺杀希特勒的企图行动，即1944年失败的军事密谋“瓦尔基里”。

Harnack joined their fight as women’s rights, too, were shredded¹⁴ by the Nazis¹⁵.

哈纳克加入了她们的斗争，因为女性的权利也被纳粹粉碎了。

She lost her university teaching job, purged¹⁶ like tens of thousands of women, Jews and others.

她失去了大学教师的工作，像成千上万的女性、犹太人及其他人一样遭到清洗。

The story unfolds in fragments.

故事以片段的形式展开。

The early pages, as Ms Donner lays out Hitler’s overthrow¹⁷ of German democracy, can read like potted history.

本书的前几页，唐纳女士描绘了希特勒对德国民主的颠覆，读起来就像简写的历史。

But as the pieces cohere¹⁸, the couple’s story becomes gripping.

但随着片段衔接起来，这对夫妇的故事变得扣人心弦。

They are betrayed, eventually, by a Soviet¹⁹ blunder.

他们最终被苏联的一个愚蠢错误暴露了。

As the Gestapo moves in, arresting resisters from various cells, the reader hears first-hand accounts of their interrogation and torture.

当盖世太保走进来，从不同的牢房逮捕抵抗分子时，读者听到了他们被审讯和被折磨的第一手资料。

The abiding²⁰ impression is of virtuous²¹, extraordinarily²² brave people caught up in tragic²³ horror.

久久不能忘怀的是，那些陷入悲惨恐惧之中的善良的、格外勇敢的人们。