Six Wolfs, Three Weills
David Simpson: Emigration from Nazi Germany, 5 October 2006
Weimar in Exile: The Anti-Fascist Emigration in Europe and America
by Jean-Michel Palmier, translated by David Fernbach.
Verso, 852 pp., £29.99, July 2006,1 84467 068 6 Show More
by Jean-Michel Palmier, translated by David Fernbach.
Verso, 852 pp., £29.99, July 2006,
“... first initial and surname: six Wolfs, three Weills (not just Kurt), two Wollheims (neither of them Richard, who was born in England). Celebrated figures such as Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, who went to Turkey, are mentioned only very briefly. Exile was a great leveller – and also a dealer of death. Much of the 20th century has been commemorated in the ... ”