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Bella Fromm (1890–1972)

Teoksen Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary tekijä

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Includes the name: Bela Fromm

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Kanoninen nimi
Fromm, Bella
Syntymäaika
1890-12-20
Kuolinaika
1972-02-09
Hautapaikka
Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, USA
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Germany
Syntymäpaikka
Nuremberg, Germany
Kuolinpaikka
New York, New York, USA
Asuinpaikat
Berlin, Germany
New York, New York, USA
Ammatit
journalist
memoirist
wine merchant
novelist
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Bella Fromm was born in Nuremberg to a prosperous, assimilated German Jewish family. Her father died when she was a child. In 1911, she married Max Israel, a businessman with whom she had a daughter. The couple later divorced. After her mother’s death in 1918, she inherited the family fortune and devoted her time to social work. She lost her wealth during the financial crisis of 1923 and went to work for the Ullstein newspapers, including the Berliner Zeitung. After starting off writing about traditionally female subjects such as fashion and social gossip, she soon graduated to reporting on politics and diplomacy. She became a well-known figure in Weimar Berlin high society, getting to know diplomats, statesmen, editors, and foreign correspondents. By her own account, she met Hitler, Göring, Hess and Goebbels several times at diplomatic events. However, as a Jew and an outspoken liberal, she was in danger after the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. She sent her daughter to the USA the following year. She was no longer able to write under her own name, but her journalism continued to appear anonymously. She returned to the family wine trade to make a living, relying on her contacts with foreign embassies and wealthy Berliners. In 1938, after Jews were excluded from German businesses, she emigrated to the USA, settling in New York City. There she worked as a typist and secretary, and married her third husband, Peter Wolff. With the entry of the USA into World War II, she published Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary (1943), which contained colorful accounts of people and events in her life in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s. In 1961, she published a novel based on her experiences in exile, Die Engel weinen (The Angels Cry). Blood and Banquets was translated into German and published in 1993 under the title Als Hitler mir die Hand küsste (When Hitler Kissed My Hand).

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While it's possible to be consistently wrong about one's political predictions, being right all the time seems far-fetched. Bella Fromm's knack for always getting it right stretches one's suspension of disbelief to untenable lengths. This so-called diary reads like an account written after the fact. She never misses a mention of a monumental historical figure. In fact, it seems she never knew anyone irrelevant, ever. The diplomatic corps relied on her completely, and it was her esteemed duty to stay in Germany as long as possible since she was always on a mission for the sake of mankind. Please. This is a tiresome read that rings false as a contemporary account and falls flat as history.… (lisätietoja)
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mambo_taxi | 1 muu arvostelu | Oct 17, 2015 |
outstanding - chilling personal account of the creep of Nazis and Nazism into "normal" German society in the 1930s.
 
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hoyameb | 1 muu arvostelu | Apr 2, 2006 |

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1
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118
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#167,490
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½ 3.4
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9
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