Mattusch, Harriet C.

Born in South Dakota, Harriet C. Mattusch studied in New York, modern dance, political science, English literature, and theater. In 1933 she studied in Berlin: it was the year that Hitler came to power. From 1935 to 1940, Harriet worked at Briarcliff Junior College in New York. Then she became an editor and free-lance ghost writer. In 1942, she married Kurt Robert Mattusch, a founder of the German Democratic Youth movement, who had advised his groups in 1933 to leave Germany rather than join the Hitler Youth. Before he left Germany in 1937, he wrote about the threat of Hitler for Fortune magaz...