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11. The Mom Who Stole the Blueprints for the Atomic Bomb

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Life of a German Jew

In the late 19 thirties, ursula had divorced rudy and was still operating out of sw Switzerland. She'd managed to evade all the people who was hunting for spies like her in switzerland but her passsport was running out. As a german jew, she was going to be unable to get a new passport. So she hit on a plan to marry alexander foote. And it's quite funny, she said to len, wel, of course. It'll just be a marriage of convenience. You know, we'll divorce as soon as you want. Then he looked mortally offended and said, em yes, of course, i understand that.

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