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Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who we were. You ve got the wrong person, I told him. My wife is gentle and kind. She wouldn t hurt a fly. In 1939, when she was just nineteen years old, Hermine Braunsteiner applied for a job in a new prison opening near her home. She had heard the pay was better than working...