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Today I'm joined by Lynn Olson, the author of The Sisterhood of Ravensbrook,

how an intrepided band of Frenchwoman resisted the Nazis and Hitler's all-female

concentration camp, which might get the award for longest title of a book that I've interviewed

for on the podcast. Lynn, how's it going today?

It's going very well, thank you.

May is almost over, June is almost here.

That's exciting. I love summer.

It is a nice time of the year, for sure.

Speaking about not nice things, I guess, this is an awkward transition,

but you wrote a book about Ravensbrook,

but let's start with the simple question of what was Ravensbrook and what made it special? Right. It was, Robbins,

it's pronounced Robin's book by the Germans, and that's the German, I use the German

pronunciation. Robinsonbrook was the only all-female camp, concentration camp in Germany.

There were many others.

You know, some had women, some had men, but Robbinsbrook was only women.

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