370. The First British Indians: Saving Jews In Nazi Germany (Ep 2)

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Life in Kassel: A Chocolate Box Existence and Suffragette Solidarity

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Kassel is described as a prosperous, slightly sleepy German university town set in a valley surrounded by beech forests — the town where the Brothers Grimm collected many of their fairy tales. For Catherine and Lena it is domestic bliss: Lena cooks restorative German food, the air is delightful, and Catherine writes to Sophia tempting her to visit and recover from what sounds like an eating disorder. From this happy distance, Catherine watches Sophia's suffragette campaigns with bemused but real support, sending money to Millicent Fawcett's non-militant wing. Anand suggests Catherine's support for women's rights was perhaps sharpened by her own unconventional situation — a relationship that could, at some point, have been criminalised. Meanwhile, Sophia and Bamba seethe in Hampton Court's grace-and-favour apartments, surrounded by what they consider the architects of colonial violence against their family.