In comparing their later attitudes toward Germany (1937)
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All three intermediaries later became Nazis and died in the war—an irony not lost upon the superstitious Siegmund and Grunfeld. During his last overnight trip to Berlin in 1937, Grunfeld was returning to the airport when Heinrich Himmler pulled up beside his taxi in a Mercedes—a baleful omen. It would be Grunfeld’s last glimpse of Berlin.
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