CHAPTER 38––The Upstart On April 18 (1944)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Their plain, stoic, no-nonsense manner pleased the German puritanism he had imbibed from his mother. After a “doodlebug” attack on London in 1944, he marveled at the uncomplaining reaction of his staff, telling a correspondent, “It is significant that when I came the other morning to the office our liftman told me that he had been bombed out the night before, but he was just as punctual for his morning duty as on every previous occasion, and he was just as jolly as usual.”2 Like many refugees, Siegmund and Eva were struck by the often kindly treatment they received from the British. After going to great pains to retrieve her Swedish citizenship in 1933, Eva was reluctant to renounce it again, but being a Swedish national entailed certain wartime hardships.
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