Written and published in Italian (1995) and German (1996), Hans Deichmann’s memoir Objects recalls episodes from his life by associating them with various everyday objects. Like his brother-in-law, Helmuth James von Moltke (a leading conspirator in the failed 1944 assassination of Hitler), Deichmann (1907—2004) worked to undermine the Nazi regime, but also its Fascist ally in Italy, where he served as an agent for the German chemical industry while collaborating with the underground resistance. He was able, among many other things, to thwart a number of recruitments of Italian workers assigned to the I.G. Farben chemical plant at Auschwitz and its other hellish sites in Silesia. The book, which was awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis in 1996, was published the following year in an English translation by Peter Glassgold and Peter Constantine.

Marsilio. 1997