CHAPTER 33––Orphans of the Storm The bond between Max and E... (1938)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
He passed through the Third Reich with his own cheerful resilience. “I do not envy him his life,” Eddie Warburg said of him in 1938, “but I do envy him his real nobility of character which enables him to carry on with such grace and charm.”1 In part, Eric weathered the persecution through travel, including twice-yearly trips to America to establish residency there. In 1936, he traveled aboard the zeppelin Hindenburg, which spectacularly exploded the next year.
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