Kurt E Wolff

Alexander Wolff: In reconstructing Munich massacre, I learned history is ever ...

• The rise of the Nazis sent my dad's half-Jewish father and Catholic stepmother on the lam. Kurt Wolff had been an avant-garde book publisher, Kafka's first, and a patron of "decadent" painters like Chagall, Kandinsky and Klee. In 1933, he and his wife, Helen, fled Munich on a tip, just in front of tlaunch into an exercise in calculation that ultimately turns in on itself: Is my father's service in the Luftwaffe at all mitigated by the Nazis having banned 80 percent of the books published by his father? Would my own moral inheritance be cleaner if 90 or 95 percent of the books in the Kurt Wolff
• Date: Jul 26, 2012
• Source: Google