(30-12-2021, 06:38 PM)sumstyle Wrote: I've finished Code Talker, which was an autobiography on Chester Nez, one of the Navajo marines that put together the unbreakable code in WW2 with the battles in the Pacific.  Interesting  back story with his memories of life on the reservation. Their treatment at the hands of white people - not at all dissimilar to the Maaori in NZ, complulsory land acquisition, happy for the men to fight in wars for the ruling class, but that didn't necessarily get them treated as an equal once back after the war.

Now listening to The Puzzle Women, which is a fiction book but based around the true facts of the Stasi in East Berlin, and all the documents they kept on the people they spied on.  When the Berlin Wall was torn down, they started shredding all the evidence on the "lost people", yet there was a team of women that painstakingly recreated the pages manually so that records could be found of the disappeared.