Miss Lotte Mendel was a dental surgeon at Hamburg, before she emigrated to England, in 1939. Her report concerns the time after the arrest of her husband to be, engineer Hans Allen, in November 1938, and his internment at the ill-famed KZ Sachsenhausen. From then on, she went to see the police-officer Kühn in the Central Office for Jews regularly, in order to try and help her fiancé in the Camp and to get him out of the Camp as soon as possible.

The officer was obviously impressed by her simple and intrepid sincerity and helped her in many ways to obtain what she wanted. She had the opportunity to witness several interesting incidents in the Office of the Hamburg Police.

The author reports on a patient of hers, too: Fräulein Ella Nielsen, a prison-officer, who succeeded to help people on various occasions and once saved the life of a French girl sentenced to death, at a Labour Camp in Silesia.