As Paul’s son Jimmy wrote, “From our house,
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
As Paul’s son Jimmy wrote, “From our house, high on the hills overlooking the Elbe, I could watch an endless procession of ships of many nations going to or coming from almost every part of the world.… At the approach of the big Hamburg-American liners I would run up to the attic to dip the American flag, hoping for and sometimes getting a whistle-blast salute in reply from one of the captains who knew the family as frequent passengers.”19 The world’s biggest vessels slid down the Hamburg slipways, capped by the 54,000-ton Vaterland in 1913, apostrophized as the largest moving object ever created by mankind.
chapter: 11 - The Endangered German