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“..Thus in the presence of the scorching sun, purple sea, and luxuriant blossoms, the memory of an experience of her fervid early love came back to her. And she tried to visualize that face, that figure. And Io, she succeeded, and she noticed that this was a very interesting occupation. For she discovered that that figure...”

“Keep this safe, it is my whole life.”

“Daberlohn: 'One must first go into oneself to be able to go out of oneself. One means of going out of oneself is, for me, the movie, man's machine for producing himself'.”

“an eight minute film created by Studio Louter, using Salomon's original goauches, for the Jewish Historical Museum”

“Franziska : 'In Heaven everything is much more beautiful than here in earth – and when your Mummy has turned into a little angel she'll.. ..bring a letter, telling her what's like in Heaven..'. Franziska was of somewhat sentimental disposition.”

“..Since I myself needed a year to discover the significance of this strange work, many of the texts and tunes, particularly in the first paintings, elude my memory and must - like the creation as a whole so it seems to me - remain shrouded in darkness.”

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— Kenneth Tynan

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— A. James Gregor

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"The pronounced socialist image of the NSDAP that had come across strongly during the campaign… had plainly alienated middle-class support. The attacks of the Nazis had seemed to many little different …"

— Ian Kershaw

Literature1943

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