In New York City, flocks of pigeons met for their own mass in front of the steps of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on the city’s most fashionable thoroughfare. These were blue and grey birds whose necks in the bright sunlight had…
“The journalist concerns himself with facts,” writes Dr. Anne Frank Koestler in 1964. “The seeking out and careful recreation of each fact is of vital concern to him. But the arrangement of the facts into a more than two -dimensional reproduction…
After a drive to Bonn, Hitler had flown to Munich late on Friday the 29th, and he arrived at nearly four a.m. on Saturday, twelve hours before the anticipated ‘coup.’ He let Ernst Roehm slept in the Pension Hanselbauer at…
The next day, Saturday the 30th, he awoke much later than usual, feeling drugged. His eyes were heavy, his shoulders sluggish with the anaesthesia of sleep. His first thought was of her, and he put his robe on and went…
That night when Lisel returned to the apartment, she found Mr. Entrater upstairs, painting.
By the next morning, Friday the 29th, a two day storm had come and gone.
The implications buried in this simple idea are fascinating and numerous. The bird is life, the passing scene, or if you will, history itself. Under certain circumstances, the shadow is bird like, representational.
Two days following Konrad’s disappearance, they watched the sunset in a silence of mourning. Albert, Ruprecht, Franz and Lisel were in the studio. The warm June night made the smell of oil paint especially strong; the even heavier, slightly gagging…
Three days later on Monday, June 25th, the SS at Gestapo headquarters at 8 Prinz Albrechstrasse in Berlin filed the following report from Colonel Frederich Kostler regarding the arrests of Rudolf Goetz, Josef Braun, Erich Weiss, and Konrad Hoeffer:
That night, Lisel declined an invitation to the theater with Mr. Entrater and some friends, and after a cold supper with Lotte in the kitchen, she visited the bookcases that filled the long wall of the study.
