CHAPTER 37––Charnel House In the autumn of 1944 (1918)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
On a damp, gray October day, he entered Aachen to observe firsthand the Third Reich’s ghastly legacy of gutted, skeletal buildings and dazed survivors. Eric described it as a dead city that conveyed a sense of “great coldness, tiredness and infinite exhaustion like in 1918.”1 He recorded ghoulish images: limbs protruding from rubble; a tailor’s dummy still sporting undershorts; stray, ravenous animals. The Nazi overlords had fled these charred ruins, leaving behind a wretched populace who inspired in Eric both compassion and disgust.
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