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Life precipitated in the city, the locus of modernism. His own cities were Leipzig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above...
Such accolades are tough to come by in academe, where scholars guard their intellectual turf and rarely show kindness toward a contrary thesis. Abraham's volume laid a measure of blame for the failure of the post-World War I German government upon German businessmen, who came to favor Hitler, a view that scholars have squabbled about for decades. The book, with its Marxist perspective, was respected even by uncompromising Gerald D. Feldman, a University of California expert on late imperial and Weimar Germany. Feldman had critiqued an early draft and pronounced the volume "imaginative and interesting...
...twist my heart . . . so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like so to be." Four pages later a Nazi architect bitterly considers himself in the third person: "Hitler . . . would have been keenly delighted by the role Albert Speer played as a defendant...
...government's racial policies, noting that "blacks are systematically stripped of their South African citizenship and are being turned into aliens in the land of their birth." Said he: "This is apartheid's final solution, like the solution the Nazis had for the Jews in Hitler's Aryan madness...
DIED. Hans Speidel, 87, co-conspirator in the 1944 generals' plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and from 1957 to 1963 NATO commander of allied land forces in Central Europe; of pneumonia; at his home in Bad Honnef, outside Bonn, West Germany. One of Germany's military elite, Speidel became disgusted with Hitler's conduct of the war and joined the unsuccessful bomb plot to kill the Nazi dictator at Hitler's East Prussia headquarters. Remaining silent under interrogation, Speidel survived the subsequent Gestapo inquisition. When West Germany's army was finally rebuilt...