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“... Anne Dixon on cyanotype impressions of ferns, lace and feathers. A lush recent book edited by Peter Walther and produced by Benedikt Taschen offers an overview of Atkins’s work, illustrated not only with facsimiles of every cyanotype but also with photographs of her watercolours, drawings and pages from her herbarium. The hefty volume is largely ...”

“... on the impact of the outside world on their people rather than the other way round. Even Peter Pulzer’s excellent ‘political history of a minority’ does not quite escape from such introversion. The two Jews whose impact on German politics was the greatest, the founders of the German labour movement, Marx and Lassalle, barely appear (there are ...”

“... non-Jewish middle class. Nor did all Jews fit the rational-liberal stereotype. Some, like the poet Peter Altenberg, would have been more at home in the Place Pigalle. Others, like Friedrich Eckstein – typically, the university-educated son of an industrialist – moved from vegetarian Wagnerism through theosophy to the occultism that in Vienna became the ...”

“... to ‘Kulturbolschewismus’, culturally. The major centrist thinkers – Mann, Max Weber, Walther Rathenau, none of them instinctive democrats, but urged on by fear of the gun-happy right – managed to justify a democratic republic as the necessary successor to an unrestorable Reich. So, of course, did the main parties of the system: the majority ...”

“... in most universities German was a required subject for students of chemistry). Alex studied under Walther Borsche at the University of Frankfurt am Main. To make this possible, the value of his Carnegie scholarship was raised to £150 p.a., which, at 20 marks to the pound, was adequate, for bed and breakfast cost 35 marks per week and other meals might be got ...”

“... the bread-ball flirtatiously at Yegorova and Alliluyeva went home and shot herself with the little Walther pistol, a present from her brother. Or perhaps it was because of her work with Mikhoels on the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee or her behaviour at the reception for Golda Meir, only a few months after Mikhoels was murdered, when she addressed Golda in ...”

“... of wrecked opera houses, Germany leads the world in acoustical science, and Utzon wisely engaged Walther Unruh of Berlin as his stage expert. The NSW Government had appointed the Ove Arup partnership engineers to the project. The two Danes got along famously; too famously perhaps, because fundamental engineering problems were still unsolved when Joe ...”

“... he would be handed over to the Soviets. His predecessor as minister for food and agriculture, Walther Darré, an ideologue of ‘blood and soil’ and aggressive eastward expansion, was found guilty of plunder and despoliation, and sentenced to seven years in prison but released after two. Though Backe’s memo was produced as evidence, the Hungerplan was ...”

“... Several biographies (including that of Wolfgang Leppmann, who takes his cue in this respect from Peter Demetz’s study of 1953) have made much of the young René Rilke’s Pre-Raphaelite affectations, his appearances in an abbé’s black habit on the Prague corso, giving away ‘to the poor’ copies of his first collection of poems; and it is a ...”