It had been replaced by curiosity. By the time he faced the inevitable interviews he was cheerful, surprised at the ease with which he trotted out the phrases: growth, expansion, conciliation, tariff autonomy, correlation of interests, looking back, looking ahead, the common ground of the early d...
shouted the voice under the steel helmet.“Corporal Schneider.”“You’ll be in charge for as long as we stop here, understand?”“Yessir!”“Good. You there—” he pointed to the blond fellow—“what’s your name?”“Private Siebental.”“Okay: Private Siebental will stand guard outside this car until four o’clo...
10The view is occasionally expressed that, after January 30, 1933, the day of Hitler’s seizure of power, some kind of economic miracle took place. However, as far as our family is concerned, I cannot affirm this. The fact of my brother’s having joined the Storm Troopers availed us nothing (variat...
The window was slid up from the inside; a guard leaned out with an inventory and asked, “Are you the prisoner Schrella?” “Yes,” said Schrella. As the guard took the objects from a box he called them out and laid them on the counter. “One pocket watch, nickel, without chain.” “One change purse, bl...
We had seen a good deal of merriment on the roads between Dublin and Limerick: schoolchildren of all ages trotted gaily—many of them barefoot—through the October rain; they came out of lanes, you could see them approaching between hedges along muddy paths; children without number forming like dro...
It was about time they finished dinner and their sex-tranquillizing salads. I was glad when the same voice came to the phone again. He was smoking a cigar now, and the smell of cabbage was less pronounced. “Schnier speaking,” I said, “remember?” He laughed. “Of course,” he said, “I hope you didn’...
Petersburg. In the various rooms various committees were meeting. Mrs. Hölthohne, Lotte Hoyser, and Dr. Scholsdorff constituted what they called the Finance Committee, whose job it was to examine the extent of Leni’s financial plight, records of seized articles, notices of eviction, etc. With the...
So I had to be satisfied with looking out of the hotel window at the city lying there scintillating with life—bubbling, throbbing, boiling over, one might say: there are vital forces hidden there just waiting to be released. The city is still not all it might be. I smoked a cigar, abandoning myse...