Hilde Schramm

File:Hilde Speer, Sepp Dietrich & Margret Speer, c. 1940.png (Hitler's country house) in 1940. SS officer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich with sister Margret on his lap. Photo by Eva Braun.]]

As a teenager, Schramm was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to study in the United States. The US government initially refused her a visa, but reversed its decision in the face of publicity, including offers of hospitality from several families (some of them Jewish).{{cite book|last1=Sereny|first1=Gitta|title=Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth|date=1995|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|isbn=0-394-52915-4|page=625|edition=First}}

Schramm became a prominent European political figure who distinguished herself for helping victims of antisemitism and Nazi atrocities. In 1994, she was awarded the Moses Mendelssohn Award from Berlin for her work.{{Cite web|title = Ein Mensch ist mehr als Tochter oder Sohn|url = http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ein-mensch-ist-mehr-als-tochter-oder-sohn/544720.html|website = Tagesspiegel – Berlin|accessdate = 11 September 2015|date = 9 May 2004|last = Loy|first = Thomas|language = German}} Schramm is active in politics, and has been a leader of the Green Party in Berlin. She has served as member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987 and 1989 to 1991 and its vice president between 1989 and 1990.{{Cite web|title = Hilde Schramm tells how it really feels to be the daughter of Albert Speer|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/apr/18/secondworldwar.gender|website = The Guardian|accessdate = 11 September 2015|first = Henrik|last = Hamrén|date = 17 April 2005}}

Schramm had a lengthy correspondence with her father while he was in Spandau Prison, from which he was released in October 1966.{{cite book|last1=Sereny|first1=Gitta|title=Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth|date=1995|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|isbn=0-394-52915-4|pages=637–661}}Gitta Sereny's book "Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth" mentions two visits of Hilde, in company with her brother Albert at the first (followed by a meal at 'superchic' restaurant Horcher's), and the second with her sister Margret (pp. 641–42; Chapter XXIV, "Spandau II" of the 1995 Alfred Knopf hardback edition). Hilde brought her new husband Ulf to visit her father in prison two months after their marriage (Ibid. at 653). The same chapter documents Hilde's efforts with foreign governments lobbying for his early release. A quote from Ibid. at p. 658: "It was the silly season, "but it was infectious," Hilde said. "We let him dream his dreams, and meanwhile got on with it, but it was quite exciting. I think my brothers and sisters were pretty anxious; my mother too, but I less. I felt I knew him pretty well, and I liked him."" Gitta Sereny's book documents, thoroughly and throughout, and with Hilde Speer Schramm's assistance, as shown above, an ongoing correspondence with her father.{{Cite web|title = Speer's daughter and the Syrian refugees|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34198967|website = BBC News, BBC World Service|accessdate = 11 September 2015|first = Abby|last = d'Arcy|date = 11 September 2015}}

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• [https://www.theguardian.com/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1462286,00.html Hilde Schramm in an interview: 'I feel ashamed']
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626064539/http://www.ijn.com/archive/2004%20arch/091704.htm Schramm receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award]

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