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Less grandly and more directly, Thomas Mann's daughter Erika describes those whom such a plea might -could it reach them move. Her method is not oratori cal but artfully journalistic. Her book, subtitled Middletown -Nazi Version, is a narration of fact throughout, and she has taken convincing care that her characters and her facts shall be typical. In a prologue and ten stories she brings into detailed focus the nature of a nameless German city shortly before the war: the sickness of all its parts, the inchoate readiness of its people to overthrow the leaders they had accepted...
...Chicago, Rudolph Spielvogel, whose wife, Erika, wanted a divorce, told the court: "When my wife would provoke me, I would hit and kick myself. Then I would know how much it would have hurt her. . . ." Countered Wife Erika, his aim was sometimes poor: "He swung a pot of hot coffee and struck me with it." She got the divorce...
Tall, black-haired Erika Mann, 32, is the oldest and most intrepid of Novelist Thomas Mann's six children. She has traveled round the world, once won an automobile driving contest, driving 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) a day. In her teens she decided not to follow the family trade of writing, instead became an actress under Max Reinhardt. When the Nazis came into power, although no Jewess, she was divorced from her Nazi husband (Gustaf Gründgens, now head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this...
...Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals snorted that not even a lieutenant would have been permitted to wed "socially impossible" Miss Erika Gruhn, a stenographer whose father is a carpenter and whose mother is a licensed masseuse...
...widower for five years and father of five children-took a second wife, but for 24 hours the regimented German press was not able to learn even the bride's name. Finally the honeymooners were found, strolling through the zoo in Leipzig, the bride's name revealed: Erika Gruhn, 28-year-old daughter of a Hanover carpenter...