not a problem for them. The embassy appointed a man called "Major Peirano" as a liaison officer to "support" the women, but the parents came away with the strong impression that Peirano was procipally concerned to withhold any information to which he might have had access concerning the disappearances. He certainly did nothing to help find the disappeared children, giving rise to accusations afterwards that whereas the mothers at this stage knew only that their children were missing, West German embassy staff knew already that they had long since been murdered. After the military government collapsed and a form of democracy returned in 1983, a memorial tablet to Nora was set up in the Natural Sciences faculty at the university where she had studied. The Kaddish for Nora was delivered in Buenos Aires by Rabbi Rothschild. By 1983 Ellen Marx had realised that her daughter was almost certainly dead: the issue became one about truth and justice. She still needed to know what had happened and to see the killers punished. She and Idalina Tatter accepted now an invitation from Amnesty International and the Evangelical Churches in Germany to travel to West Germany. Idalina Tatter's German born husband Federico had, like Nora Marx, been disappeared. A third member of the deputation was Annemarie Zieschank from Argentina whose son, Klaus, was also missing. Controversially, from Ellen Marx's point of view, the German born Annemarie Zieschank had been a member of the Nazi party as a young woman. They made the trip as representatives of the families of the victims of the military dictatorship in Argentina, and arrived with a list of 72 people from the German-originating minority in Argentina who had disappeared during the dictatorship years. In West Germany Marx addressed the Evangelical Church Assembly, she spoke at press conferences and she addressed universities. Pointing out that she was a Jewess from Berlin she told her audiences: "You Germans know what an authoritarian regime is". She disparaged West Germany's diplomats in Argentina, contrasting their efforts with those of embassies representing countries such as Austria, Spain and Ireland, all of which had done a spectacularly better job of looking after their people. She was received by Willy Brandt who promised to help. Helmut Kohl, who had taken over as chancellor in 1982, expressed solidarity. Ellen Marx was keen to press criminal charges against the Argentine military. The civil rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck,