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Is the Past 'Another Country'? Braunau-Born and Christened N 30 January 1933 President Hindenburg Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone AJR Information Volume XLVIII No. 3 March 1993 £3 (to non-members) Don't miss . .. Analysing the antecedents of 1933 Smokescreen over the silver screen p3 Is the past 'another country'? Braunau-born and christened n 30 January 1933 President Hindenburg man does not live by bread alone. Economic factors Adolf p5 had offered Hitler the Chancellorship, pend­ simply cannot account for the near-tenfold increase of Oing fresh Reichstag elections. In March Nazi strength in the 1930 election — i.e. before the Monarchy of exactly sixty years ago the election, terror-shadowed calling in of US loans due to the Wall Street Crash money pi3 in the aftermath of the Reichstag Fire, duly affirmed tipped the fitfully resurgent German economy into Nazi rule. ever-deepening recession. This sombre anniversary yet again prompts the Hitler's propulsion from the margins to the centre question of why Hitlerism happened (as well as the of politics owed a lot to the voters' alienation from a newly urgent rider of whether it can possibly happen weak-looking middle-of-the-road government, and to Bloomsbury again). a new generation of radicalised youth reaching voting It is popularly believed that the Nazis rode to power age. on the back of all-encompassing economic misery, In addition the War — pace the runaway success of o many it with hyper-inflation first pauperising the middle All Quiet on the Western Front — and the subsequent meant a classes, and the slump later throwing millions out of Treaty of Versailles still preoccupied the German Tliterar y work. There is some validity in the 'wiped-out- public. Remarque's novel has a pacifist undertone, but coterie - to us it savings-and-empty-stomachs' theory, which, how­ the majority of popular war books and films dissemi­ was a House ever, leaves out the tangle of issues summed up in the nated by Hugenberg's media empire (Scherl Verlag offering shelter. trigger words Weimar and Versailles. and Ufa) purveyed martial nostalgia and revanchism. Now Bloomsbury Though it sounds a cliche, it still holds true that 'War' runs an old adage popular with German are the publishers philosophers 'is the father of all things'. This certainly of D. M. Thomas, held good in the case of the galloping inflation that who, on receiving deprived the middle classes of their cash - and with it, royalties for his mental - balance. From 1914 to 1918, rather than Babi Yar novel WE ARE MOVING finance the war out of unpopular heavy taxes, Berlin had printed money against the 'collateral' of booty The White Hotel The full story will follow in a later issue and future conquests. When the Reich garnered defeat sobbed 'People (and the obligation to pay reparations) in place of the died for this!' confidently expected victory, inflation and the de­ 'This' is still As from March 29, 1993 the AJR offices will be located at: struction of the currency necessarily followed. Thomas's subject So much for the antecedents of the Nazi triumph matter 12 years sixty years ago. What about the possible repetition of on. Pictttres at an 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE 1933 in the Nineteen-Nineties? Many — though by no Exhibition is a 1A FROGNAL means all — indicators speak against it. Unlike its sickening LONDON NWS Weimar predecessor the Bundesrepublik has provided voyeuristic long-term stabilit)' through the successful operation exploitation of of the democratic process, and the underlying strength Holocaust horrors. Our new telephone number will be: of the economy. There are, of course, tendencies Thomas has harking back to yesteryear. Burghers cheering arson­ stooped even 071-431 6161 ist mobs in the East was one such; another is the jus sanguinis which states that ethnic German descent, lower than Martin The Fax number will be 071-431-8454 and not birth in the country, confers citizenship. Amis, whose For all that, looking back from March 1993 to Time's Arroiv was where we stood sixty years ago we can say with a show-off part)- Note: The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre will reasonable confidence that the past is another trick with remain at 15 Cleve Road. country. (This has, anyway, always been true for us in skulls, n the most literal sense of the word.) AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1993 Order of Merit Profile The founder of ROK (Reunion of Kinder- transport), Bertha Leverton, has been ment - at other North London venues. awarded the German Federal Order of Tour guide to Later that decade he switched from the Merit for her historical research. She Thespisland declining fur business to totally different received the award at a special reception employment, namely tourism. After an held in the German Embassy in January. D intensive course in English history, art and architecture, he passed a stiff examination Berlin school reopened f devised by the London Tourist Board. Ever In late 1992 the building that once accom­ since then he, and his wife, have been modated the Knabenschule der Jiidischen working as tour guides in London, the Gemeinde in Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Home Counties and Scotland. Berlin-Mitte, was returned to its original Meanwhile in 1974, on the death of 'Pern' purpose after fifty years. Closed as a school (our previous arts correspondent, and in 1942 it served first as a Wehrmacht depot renowned chronicler of the golden Weimar and then as a vocational centre. years) Stefan joined AJR Information and Thanks to the efforts of the late Heinz commenced his regular column. Nearly 20 Galinski the building was returned to the years on he pursues both his bread-and- Jewish community after the Wall fell. butter occupation and his hobby with It was completely renovated, and has undiminished vigour, pleased that the now become a Jewish school with a pri­ monthly SB feature continues to engage the mary- and pre-school class, but will even­ Stefan Bukowitz. Photo: Newman. interest of many of our subscribers. tually lead up to matriculation. j journal like ours whose readers Readers with a keen memory may recall At present the children are being bussed have known more traumatic up­ the bon mot about Dean Inge of St Paul's, to the school from West-Berhn, as there are j Aheavals than they would wish on who wrote for the Beaverbrook press, being few Jews living in the East, but this may their worst enemies, understandably puts a 'a pillar of the Church and two columns in change with the influx of Russian Jews. The high premium on continuity. The paper has the Evening Standard'. Stefan Bukowitz re-opening was performed by the current , one section which provides more continuity could be aptly described as a pillar of the community leader, Jerzy Kanal, in the j than most, namely SB's Column. For one, refugee community and one column in AJR presence of several 'old boys'. D the contents recall the theatre, music and Information. cinema of the Twenties and Thirties; for n R. G. Culinary ecumenism another, Stefan Bukowitz has been our At Yuletide, pointed out a letter to the regular columnist for close on two decades. Times, a famous London department store Born in Vienna during the Habsburg was selling Christmas pudding certified sunset, Stefan followed his father into the europaische ideen kosher by rabbinical authorities. Now, with fur trade, but even as a teenager fixed on Easter coming up, can we look forward to 'showbiz' as his overriding hobby. Conse­ I The Riding, London NWl I Hot Cross buns bearing the same seal of quently, ever since the 1920s he has been approval? D noting down details of all his theatre and Heft 81 StasiSachen 3 opera visits in notebooks - a record he keeps up to date, and to which he refers in Beitraege von Karl Corino, CLUB 1943 compiling monthly copy for the journal. Hermann Kant, Wolf Biermann, Anglo-German Cultural Forum Escaping to England after the Anschluss, Walter Janka, Gabriele Eckart, Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. he continued to work, in the fur trade, but Lutz Rathenow, Joachim Seyppel, at the Communal Hall in 1940 this 'career' suffered a long inter­ Gerhard Zwerenz, Juergen Fuchs, Belsize Square Synagogue mission. Firstly he was taken to an Austra­ Guenter Wallraff, Alfred 51 Belsize Square Kantorowicz, Werner Heiduczek, London NW3 lian internment camp aboard the notorious Dunera; then, upon release, he went into Karl-Heinz Jakobs, Chaim Noll, Sieghard Pohl, Baerbel Bohley, Mar. 1st. D. L. Maier LL.B. the British army for four-and-a-half years, The Life and Work of Arthur Koesrler. Guenter de Bruyn, J. B. Bilke, Tilo Mar. Sth. C. Krysler. serving both in this country and NW Medek, Fritz Beer, Jan Koplowitz, Members' Annual General Meeting, Europe. Herbert Freeden, Stephan followed by Zitate aus aller Welt und Postwar his interest in matters artistic Hermlin. eigene. and musical was enhanced by marriage to Mar. 15 th. Roland Stent. the light opera singer Hilde Lergens, who Edward VII and his Jewish court. Dealing Guenter Grass zum Tode von with the King's personal friends, had survived the Nazi period in Vienna as a Willy Brandt highlighting in particular Sir Ernest Cassel. Mischling. Hilde joined Peter Herz's Blue Jifi Pelikan zum Tode von Mar. 22nd. Dr. Andree Singer. Danube Club, where Stefan also worked for Alexander Dubcek The Place of Documentaries in Art. one season as a piano accompanist. The (Supported by films). Blue Danube Club closed in 1954, but in the 81 S., DM 5, - mit ausfuehrlicher Mar. 29th. Dr. Sara Sviri. Stasi-Blbliographie Cultural Links between Muslims and Jews early Sixties he organised several repeat 1 in the Middle Ages.
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