In a 1970 interview, Siegmund
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
In a 1970 interview, Siegmund admitted that he had often asked himself whether “there is not a strong grain of wisdom behind an inclination in this country to resist the modern urge for ruthless efficiency at the cost of human values.”40 Either the Janus-faced Siegmund was storming the twenty-first century or waxing sentimental about the nineteenth. On the strength of the Seligman merger and the Aluminium War, Siegmund had succeeded in resurrecting the Warburg name from the ruins of the Third Reich.
chapter: 44 - Enemy of the City