CHAPTER 35––Deathwatch Even as the Warburgs sounded the ala... (1933)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Oral testimony from Warburg employees presents a mixed picture of Nazi meddling at the bank. In 1933, not a single employee belonged to the party, and the staff refused to elect the in-house labor council required by new legislation. By the time a Herr Glücksmann joined the bank in 1936 in a clerical position, however, he already felt surrounded by Nazis: “… and the other colleagues who sat in the room were all party comrades.… Everything was ‘Heil Hitler’ from the first day on.”3 Either because this was hidden from them or because they chose to look the other way, the Warburgs never spoke about such infiltration.
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