Word: bertin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in blissful sin in Berlin with Lenore Wahl. Her family, rich Potsdam bankers, looked down their noses at Bertin, not because he was a Jew (they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst...