Susanna Weiss was a professor of Medieval English at the Friedrich Wilhelm University. She was also a secret Jew living in the Berlin in the Greater German Reich. She and the Stutzmans were present when Heinrich and Lise Gimpel told their ten-year-old daughter Alicia that she, too, was Jewish.
If such a thing in the Greater German Reich were possible, Susanna would have been an ardent feminist. She had little patience for the more sexist notions of Nazism, refusing to be a mere Hausfrau. In 2010, despite the protests of her department chair, Franz Oppenhoff, Susanna attended the annual meeting of the Medieval English Association in London. By coincidence, the British Union of Fascists was also having a convention. Susanna found this meeting more interesting, and so was present when Charlie Lynton was democratically elected the head of the party.
Susanna's attitude and her experiences in London made her a target of Oppenhoff, who frequently attempted to undermine Susanna's credibility in the eyes of her colleagues. Susanna refused to be cowed, although she did walk a moderate line so as to avoid raising the suspicions of the state.
When the SS staged its attempted Putsch against reformer Fuhrer Heinz Buckliger, Susanna headed out to the streets and to the home of Berlin's Gaulitier, Rolf Stolle, a man even more vocal about the need for reform. She and Heinrich Gimpel were part of the crowd that thwarted the SS' attempt to arrest Stolle. She was also present when the Wehrmacht, siding with Buckliger, arrived to stop the SS. She rode a tank to the headquarters of Lothar Prutzmann, the head of the SS, and was among the first to learn that he'd committed suicide.
In 2011, Susanna joined the Gimpels when they told their second daughter, Francesca that she was Jewish.