Erica Glasser Wallach person
also: Erica Wallach, Wallach, the young German-born woman, the naive woman
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Claims (6)
Erica Glasser Wallach spied_on
SED book_quoted
“the young German-born woman left behind her husband, a former U.S. Army captain by the name of Robert Wallach. He was studying in Paris, and they had two very small children. She was fearful when she entered the headquarters of the SED, whi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 2:04
Noel Field recruited
Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted
“Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 3:04
Erica Glasser Wallach covered_up
Noel Field book_quoted
“Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 3:04
SED covered_up
Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted
“when her parents fled to England. Wallach now felt on her own to track down the missing family. When Wallach asked to see her old war comrades at the SED headquarters, she was told they were not available. She would later find out why. They…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 3:34
Erica Glasser Wallach covered_up
Vorkuta book_quoted
“please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horrors, and then for a longer stretch in Vo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 4:05
Allen Dulles spied_on
Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted
“apparently trivial happenings affect a human being? During the harsh interrogations to which all four members of the Field family were subjected, including Erica Wallach, one name kept coming up. How do you know Alan Dulles? The inquisitors…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 8:00
Mentions (11)
▶ 1:33
This chapter is called Little Mice. It takes place in August of 1950, and it begins talking about a 28-year-old woman named Erica Glasser Wallach. She was in a West Berlin hotel room, and she locks her papers and most of her money in a cupb…
▶ 2:04
the young German-born woman left behind her husband, a former U.S. Army captain by the name of Robert Wallach. He was studying in Paris, and they had two very small children. She was fearful when she entered the headquarters of the SED, whi…
▶ 2:35
Erica Wallach's adoptive father, an American Quaker relief worker named Noel Field, had disappeared after being lured to Prague with the promise of a university teaching position. His wife, Herta, and the younger brother, Herman, went looki…
▶ 3:04
Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving…
▶ 3:34
when her parents fled to England. Wallach now felt on her own to track down the missing family. When Wallach asked to see her old war comrades at the SED headquarters, she was told they were not available. She would later find out why. They…
▶ 4:05
please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horrors, and then for a longer stretch in Vo…
▶ 4:35
Wallach, a cultured daughter of a physician, learned to survive in the gulag by giving up hope that she would ever return to her family and the lost joys of comforts of her old life. She would rise early each morning in the dark with her la…
▶ 5:04
but you get used to it. I finally, after three years, got used to the fact that I was totally alone in the world. Wallach learned to ingratiate herself with her fellow prisoners, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Polish women, and even one Americ…
▶ 5:31
She became a different person than the naive woman that had walked through Brandenburg Gate that morning in August of 1950. She even looked like someone else, muscled and thick and calloused from her labor. The young woman made a grim new l…
▶ 6:02
by listening to the Ukrainians' folk songs and attending Sunday salons hosted by educated women whose latrine cleaning duties were the foulest of all prison jobs. In the end, the hardened Wallach decided that surviving a frozen hell was a m…
▶ 8:00
apparently trivial happenings affect a human being? During the harsh interrogations to which all four members of the Field family were subjected, including Erica Wallach, one name kept coming up. How do you know Alan Dulles? The inquisitors…