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Sophie reads Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain by torchlight after lights out while working at the munitions factory. Mann is noted as being in exile and 'an enemy of the third Reich.'

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Mentioned as a novel published in Berlin a few years earlier by the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (B. Traven), possibly the source of the resistance movement's name.

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Referenced as a 'great, later made into a Hollywood film, kind of piratical romance' - mentioned to identify the author of The White Rose novel.

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Hans and his friends at Munich University are described as reading Augustine's Confessions as part of their engagement with Christian ideas and philosophy.