Claire Franklin

Capricious wife of the US Vice Consul, whose days consist of parties and amorous adventures. 35 years old, born and raised in Sussex, England. Nobody knows what it really looks like inside her. On the one hand she enjoys life in the upper class, on the other hand one recognizes the great loneliness in her. Parties and glamor, the founder of the American Housewives Club in Berlin, always a smile and a brisk saying on her face: She is the perfect hostess, but she drinks too much and has numerous affairs. When Claire meets Max, she is immediately drawn to him. Claire's father and her two brothers were all killed in the war while she was hanging out with Franklin in Washington DC. She only experienced the war from across the Atlantic, but her brothers and father were close to her and her hatred of the Germans runs deep. The dark side that shapes her character emerges when she realizes that her husband Tom is helping ex-Nazis escape.