They'll Have to Catch Me First
An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich
Contents
Foreword by Walter Laqueur.....................ix
Introduction...................................xiii
Drawings and Paintings.........................xvii
Part One: Berlin...............................1
Part Two Brussels..............................115
Part Three: Mechelen...........................173
Epilogue.......................................311
An Afterword on Mechelen.......................315
Credits........................................323
Chapter One
In the beginning my story is quite ordinary. A normal birth, normal
weight, and my mother who tied the dark fuzz on my head in
a little pink bow. After the childless rift of World War I, which my
father had spent in the trenches of France, I was welcomed warmly as
a bonus of the great inflation.
My entire family, down to the last great-cousin, a bachelor who kept
guinea pigs in his bathtub, lived in Berlin, all staunch German citizens
of the Mosaic faith, as we were called by the authorities. ... read full excerpt from They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich ebook
