How could I have missed it? How Frau Rosenthal really died

What an idiot I am - and to show the integrity of this blog I won't go back and alter/delete yesterday's post (this is after all a daily record of my thoughts about my reading, even if those thoughts are way off base) - but yesterday I wrote that the jewish widow, Lore Rosenthal, in Hans Fallada's "Every Man Dies Alone" dies of an OD of sleeping pills. Not so! I wasn't completely wrong - she does take a fistful of pills as she tries to escape from her jailor/protector, but what I completely forgot is that the Nazi thugs discover her when she goes back to her apartment - one takes her into the kitchen to "interrogate" her - and then we hear (offstage, so to speak) a scream and than a cursing - the Nazi/Hitler youth guy is mad that she got away and jumped out the window. It's really a great scene of horror and despair, and told entirely through indirection - we never see the leap, we don't see her body in the courtyard, just the reactions, and how they vary across the scope of the building: anger that she got away, fear, disgust at the Fuhrer's regime and his thugs. No excuses - but I can see how I missed it, the great dramatic moment told with such subtlety and deft strokes. As the story moves into its 2nd (of 4) sections, we begin to see more of the resistance - Otto Quangel, who had been basically a nonpolitical, taciturn worker, becomes outraged at the regime and decides to strike back - he (and his wife, Anna) begin making cards of protest that they leave in various places across Berlin, which they hope will seed a movement. What a smart and creepy idea - people so afraid to speak out that they have to do so through these cryptic messages. The inside page pages of the book show a map of Berlin with red flags where the cards have been discovered (the Gestapo is creating such a map) - wonder whether this obscure German novel was a source material for Gravity's Rainbow, the idea that a map of wartime events could carry a secret code or message (in GR it was German airstrikes in London, and how they could be predicted by where one of the characters had his sexual encounters).