in 1929, mildred joined arvid in germany and she enrolled in a ph.d program at the university of huston. 50% of the student there's were associated with a nazi fraternity, and she was just really astonished. it was not the germany that she expected to arrive in. and neither really was arvid. i mean, it has to be remembered that the nazi party in 1928, the year before they arrived got less than 3% of the vote in a reichstag election. and in the 1930s, 18%. but we're still -- the margins were much smaller. and of course in 1932, 37%. so there was this rapid increase, this meteoric rise in the popularities of the nazi party, and mildred witnessed that. and in her letter to her mother, she spoke about this. and she spoke about how she was delighted to be in the ph.d program, to be taken seriously as a scholar, to working on her dissertation. it must be remembered that mildred grew up in impoverished circumstances in milwaukee. her mother was a suffragette with a tenth grade education who taught herself typing and shorthand in order to make ends meet. so her father was frequently unemployed