Virtual Book and Author: The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them  

Berlin, 1943. A group of high-society Germans gather for afternoon tea. Two countesses. A diplomat. An intelligence officer. An ambassador’s widow. A pioneering headmistress. Every one of them despises the Nazi regime. Every one of them is risking their life to resist it.  

And one of them, sitting right there at the table, is about to betray them all to the Gestapo. 

This is the world New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Freedland reconstructs in his latest work of nonfiction, The Traitors Circle, an astonishing true story of courage, heroism and betrayal. For more than a decade, a circle of elite dissenters operated in the shadows of Hitler’s Germany, rescuing Jews, passing secrets, and plotting for a future without the Fuhrer. They were brave. They were principled. And they were undone from within. The question at the center of the book is deceptively simple: What kind of person risks everything to stand up to tyranny? And what kind of person, having seen that courage up close, chooses to destroy it? 

Join us as Freedland takes the audience inside the drawing rooms and interrogation cells of wartime Berlin, tracing how a network of moral courage was infiltrated and crushed, and why their story carries an unsettling resonance in our own time. 

Free to the public. Reservations required.