CHAPTER 36––Little Man and Fat Boy Settled in a comfortable... (1941)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Shortly after Germany invaded Poland, he inscribed on its back: “The events of the war and the revolutionary time in Germany only made it ever clearer to me that every possession is vanity. I didn’t want to chain my destiny too much to Kösterberg, which we all so dearly loved.”6 In late 1941, when he and Fritz lost their German citizenship and residual partnership stakes in Hamburg, Max wrote a moving birthday note to his daughter Anita. His last illusions were now in shreds.
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