Bitter as never before
David Blackbourn: Einstein, 3 February 2000
Einstein's German World
by Fritz Stern.
Princeton, 335 pp., £15.95, October 1999,9780691059396 Show More
by Fritz Stern.
Princeton, 335 pp., £15.95, October 1999,
“... upper stratum’. Capitalist and romantic utopian, man of action and wouldbe philosopher-king, bon viveur and advocate of austerity, Rathenau is perhaps the most contradictory figure in this book. A key organiser of German raw materials in the First World War, and attacked by the Allies as the despoiler of Belgium, Rathenau became a postwar symbol of ... ”