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...from the Siegfriedian fastnesses of the Rhineland, a German officer wrote to his wife: "A storm is shaking the German tree and all the weak leaves are falling. . . . But . . . look every day at our picture by Dürer of Ritter, Tod und Teufel ["The Knight, Death and the Devil"-see cut]. . . . Go fearlessly along that small bit of road which still separates us from finality...
...best historical romances now are being written by the Germans: Author Neumann, one of the youngest historian-romancers, is one of the best. His The Devil (Der Teufel) written on the same subject as Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, made Quentin Durward seem like a nursery tale. King Haber (Konig Haber) is a collection of three stories, more like condensed novels than short stories, written several years ago, now translated for the first time...
Author Alfred Neumann, 35, is a Prussian, now lives in Munich. He made a reputation with Der Patriot (1925), Konig Haber (1926), won the Kleist Prize (1926) with Der Teufel. Other books: Die Rebellen, Rebels, Guerra (translation to be published this spring...
...Teufel einen Sohn...
...with rage and horror, he rushed through the Reichstag like one possessed, telling his friends of the sacrilege he had seen. His friends rushed off to verify the tale and found to their horror that not only had Moltke's bust vanished, but also that of Bismarck. Der Teufel! This was too much. In a body, they stormed the Reichstag's Decoration Committee, demanding loudly and angrily to be told why the great heroes of the Empire had been deposed in favor of an upstart Republican...