Event 67

Jonathan Freedland - The Traitors Circle - The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

Berlin, 1943. A group of high-society anti-Nazi dissenters gather for a tea party one late summer afternoon. They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from Germany’s elite: two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer and a pioneering headmistress. What they don’t know is that someone at the table is poised to reveal their secrets to the Third Reich’s most ruthless detective. Award-winning author Jonathan Freedland discusses his remarkable study of heroism. He asks a timely question: what does it take to risk everything and stand up to tyranny?