This very topic just came up in one of my classes last week.

And Poland is considered possibly the next target? ✅

No one thinks Munich 1938 was a good thing. Could the parallels be any clearer?
A country in Eastern Europe? ✅
The dictator of a neighboring state demands territory to which he is not entitled by int’l treaty? ✅
Unspecified security guarantees? ✅
The country not giving input to the agreement? ✅

Gratuliere! 📷📔

Like I was saying:
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That is a career highlight!

I do appreciate that the author of Attention: A Love Story has an interest in German history (and published a few articles in the NYT on the topic).
But if she's going to namecheck scholars who wrote on Weimar's end and link to reviews of their books, she's missing some real landmark works.

3/3

Gay was a great historian, but he didn't write about the machinations that lead to the end of Weimar or write a comprehensive history of the Weimar Republic.
Meanwhile, the reviewer didn't mention Benjamin Hett, Henry A. Turner, or Heinrich August Winkler, among others, who expressly did.

2/3

UK edition: "Dame und Herr im Restaurant" by Lesser Ury
Spanish edition: a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Italian edition: "Kaffeehausszene Paris" by Lesser Ury
French edition: "Strassenszene Mit Frau, Berlin" by Lesser Ury

5/5

I'm also fascinated by the choice of cover art, which is about representing the book's content and having appealing marketing.

German edition: "Berliner Straße im Regen" by German-Jewish artist Lesser Ury (1925)
US edition: "Hochbahnhof Bülowstraße bei Nacht" by Lesser Ury (1922)

4/5

In the British English, Italian, Spanish, and French translations, the title is provided as "Effingers: A Berlin Saga."

Perhaps the original title wasn't descriptive enough for readers in London, Rome, Madrid, and Paris. Perhaps including "A Berlin Saga" was good marketing.

3/5

One thing I find interesting, however, is the representation of the title. In the original German and in the American English translation, the title is simply "Effingers."

2/5

"Avi Primo, ehemals israelischer Botschafter in Deutschland, hat gesagt: Das, was einmal geschehen ist, kann wieder geschehen."

Sie verwechselt zwei Personen. Avi Primor war israelischer Botschafter. Der italienische Autor Primo Levi sagte: „Es ist geschehen, und folglich kann es wieder geschehen.“

Related to that topic (though not directly on it), I highly recommend this forthcoming book:
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(I’ve read the Druckfahne.)