The Fall of Leyna

Munich

Leyna’s history links the idealism of the Oxford summer to the physical and psychological devastation inflicted by Nazi persecution.

increasing

Bearing strength in each event

decreasing

A Defiant Young Woman A Defiant Young Woman from "Munich". Politics and Recklessness A Radical Friend Leyna joins Hartmann and Legat on a walking holiday and insists on seeing Hitler in person.

A Defiant Young Woman from "Munich". Politics and Recklessness A Radical Friend Leyna joins Hartmann and Legat on a walking holiday and insists on seeing Hitler in person.

Politics and Recklessness A Radical Friend Leyna joins Hartmann and Legat on a walking holiday and insists on seeing Hitler in person. Open Defiance Her public insult of Hitler’s circle draws violent retaliation and exposes the danger already gathering around them.

A Broken Friendship A Broken Friendship from "Munich". The Three Separate A Split Among Friends After the street chase, Hartmann and Leyna quarrel while Legat leaves Munich soon afterward.

A Broken Friendship from "Munich". The Three Separate A Split Among Friends After the street chase, Hartmann and Leyna quarrel while Legat leaves Munich soon afterward.

The Three Separate A Split Among Friends After the street chase, Hartmann and Leyna quarrel while Legat leaves Munich soon afterward. Unresolved Attachment The event becomes a painful memory neither man can fully disentangle from his later choices.

Underground Politics Underground Politics from "Munich". Resistance and Arrest Continued Activism Leyna returns to political work with communists after the Nazi seizure of power.

Underground Politics from "Munich". Resistance and Arrest Continued Activism Leyna returns to political work with communists after the Nazi seizure of power.

Resistance and Arrest Continued Activism Leyna returns to political work with communists after the Nazi seizure of power. Captured Her underground activity leads to arrest and imprisonment in a women’s camp.

Violence Reaches Her Violence Reaches Her from "Munich". Irreversible Injury Persecution Intensifies After her Jewish identity is discovered, Leyna suffers grave abuse and is reported to have fallen from a window.

Violence Reaches Her from "Munich". Irreversible Injury Persecution Intensifies After her Jewish identity is discovered, Leyna suffers grave abuse and is reported to have fallen from a window.

Irreversible Injury Persecution Intensifies After her Jewish identity is discovered, Leyna suffers grave abuse and is reported to have fallen from a window. Survival Without Recovery Her body survives, but her injuries leave her with profound damage and little visible response.

A Visit at Dawn A Visit at Dawn from "Munich". The Friend Recognised Hartmann Brings Legat Hartmann takes Legat to the nursing home where Leyna lives under his financial protection.

A Visit at Dawn from "Munich". The Friend Recognised Hartmann Brings Legat Hartmann takes Legat to the nursing home where Leyna lives under his financial protection.

The Friend Recognised Hartmann Brings Legat Hartmann takes Legat to the nursing home where Leyna lives under his financial protection. A Moment of Uncertainty Legat greets her, seeing only a faint possible recognition in her eyes, and leaves unsure whether it was real.

Summer 1932, Munich

Summer 1932, after the confrontation

1933–1935

After her second arrest, before September 1938

30 September 1938, pre-dawn