Luckily they were able to ask family and we found the answers we were looking for. How exactly were they attached to the wall etc? There is a lot of information about the US online and in books, but trying to find something about Germany? Frustrating. For example I needed to know about telephone jacks in Germany at the time. It was the simple things that were difficult to find the details about. Being from Germany they had insights that I didn’t as someone who had never been there. I’d especially like to thank one of my beta readers, and her husband, for all their help. Travel books like The Lonely Planet Guides were useful too, but again had to be adjusted because they focused on what Berlin is like now, rather than describing the city in 1943. Data bases were very helpful, especially the Times Digital Archive, as they gave more of an insight into what it was like living there at the time. I found books of street maps of the area-because sometimes you want something in hardcopy and not flipping back and forth on browser tabs-and firsthand accounts of people who had been in Berlin at that time. Working in a library is great when doing research.
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