Crome, Hans, 265–66

  Crome, Karen Arentzen, 265–66, 269

  Crome, Mikkel, 268

  Cunningham, Merce, 356n

  Dachau (concentration camp), 75, 227, 260, 357n

  Dagerman, Stig, 154

  Danse Macabre (Masereel), 345n

  Darmstadt, Germany. See also Merck Darmstadt

  author’s visit to, 279–84

  courtship and marriage of Kurt and Elisabeth, 15

  destruction during the war, 243, 360n

  family residing in, 37, 202, 251, 346n

  sidewalk Stolpersteine, 292, 363n

  Daumier, Honoré, 190

  de Gaulle, Charles, 351n

  de Gaulle, Geneviève, 351n

  The Death of Virgil (Broch), 185–86, 352n

  Demnig, Günter, 74–75, 357n

  de-Nazification, 166, 260, 289–94, 349n, 354n, 362n

  Der jüngste Tag (The Judgement Day), 32, 34, 45, 334n

  Der Untertan (Mann), 43, 43–44

  Detjen, Marion, 126, 132, 199, 236–37, 310–11, 345n, 346n

  Detjen, Stephan, 236–37

  Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, 280

  Die Gegenwart (magazine), 350n

  Die Sonne (KWV, 1920), 1

  Die weissen Blätter (The White Pages), 34

  Dispeker, Thea, 103, 107, 187–88

  Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 312, 353n

  Dog Years (Grass), 212

  Don Carlos (pretender to Spanish throne), 22

  d’Ormesson, Wladimir, 94, 107

  Dresdner Bank, 333n

  Duchamp, Marcel, 101

  Duke, David, 282

  E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 220–22, 224

  East Barnard, VT, 241–42

  Eco, Umberto, 107, 235, 302

  Ehrlich, Paul, 89

  Einstein, Albert, 74, 89, 185, 187, 341n

  Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC), 100–101, 103–04, 106

  Engelmann, Rudolph, 292, 363n

  Englemann, Rudolf, 292

  Engstrom, Sigrid, 70

  Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 237

  Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zunkunft (Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future), 283

  Erinnerungskultur (rememberance culture), 77

  Ernst, Max, 101

  Ervin, Sam, xiii

  Euler, Friedrich Wilhelm, 282, 361n

  European-American Conference, 282

  The Exiles (documentary film), 339n

  Expressionism, 55, 65, 214, 338n, 347n

  Faber du Faur, Curt von, 130, 193, 208–09, 212

  Faulkner, William, 193

  Federal Republic of Germany. See also Germany

  about: founding, 299–300, 350n

  40th anniversary of war’s end, 229–32

  75th anniversary of war’s end, 357n

  early stirrings of Erinnerungskultur, 357n

  1972 Olympic Games, 273–79

  refugees/immigration, 30–31, 51, 236–37, 336n

  reparations for war victims, 179

  restoration of citizenship, 305–06, 350n, 357n

  restoration of the Reichstag, 47, 300

  reunification, 200

  rise of neo-Nazism, 49–52, 282

  Feiner Mann Sichert Sich (FMSS), 354n

  Feldman, Morton, 356n

  Ferencz, Benjamin, 179

  Ferriday, Caroline Woolsey, 175–81, 203, 277, 278, 351n

  Ferriday, Henry McKeen, 176

  Ferriday, J. C., 179–80

  Ferriday, LA, 351n

  Ferriday, William Calvin, 179

  Ferriday, William Calvin, Jr., 179–80

  Festinger, Leon, 277

  Final Solution. See the Holocaust

  Fischhof, Josephine, 66–67, 342n

  Five Germanys I Have Known (Stern), 331n

  Florence, Italy, 46, 82–83, 130, 140

  Fockes (married couple), 248

  Fontane, Theodor, 13

  förderbdes Mitglied der SS (FMSS), 201, 354n

  Frank, Claude, 184–85

  Frankfurt Book Fair, 212

  Frensdorff, Karl, 222–23

  Friedrich Gundolf Prize, 357n

  Frings-Merck, Ute, 205–05

  Frisch, Max, 234

  Fritz, 362n

  Fry, Varian, 4, 100–107, 305, 312, 344n, 356n

  Fuchs, Albert, 95, 104, 107

  Führerprojekt, 350n

  Furman (Dr.), 186

  Gallimard (publisher), 346n

  Gauland, Alexander, 51–52

  Gaupp, Peter, 338n

  Gebhardt, Karl, 351n

  Gedenkstätte (memorial/place of reflection), 76–77

  Geisel, Theodor (aka Dr. Seuss), 164

  George, Stephan, 14, 133

  German Air Sports Association (DLV, Deutscher Luftsportverband), 363n

  German Booksellers Association, 212

  German Literary Archive, 213, 329n

  Germany. See also Federal Republic of Germany

  annexation of the Sudentenland, 342n

  appeasement (Munich Agreement), 342n

  book burnings, 71, 278

  burning the Reichstag, 3, 62, 70, 305–06, 329n, 330n, 339n

  invasion of Holland and Belgium, 94–95

  invasion of Poland, 94, 113

  invasion of the Soviet Union, 111, 117–26

  Kristalnacht (Night of Broken Glass), 342n

  launching the Hunger Plan, 119–21

  Nazi Party records, preservation, 199–207

  Nazism, role of sports, 272–73

  1936 Olympic Games, 236–38

  occupation of France, 95

  passage of Nuremberg Laws, 62–63

  plot to assassinate Hitler, 14, 148–49, 360n

  post-war de-Nazification, 166, 260, 289–94, 349n, 354n, 362n

  Wannsee Conference, 108–10

  wartime experiences, 153–68

  Weimar hyperinflation, 1, 46, 57, 72, 252, 285, 339n, 340n, 347n

  Germany: A Winter’s Tale (Heine), 341n

  “Germany in Winter (Roth), 340n

  Gerstel, Ruth, 49

  Gesinnungsemigrant, 4

  Gettysburg Address, 364n

  Ghent, Belgium, 36, 40

  Gide, André, 134

  Gift from the Sea (Lindbergh), 191–92, 197, 269, 353n

  Giraudox, Jean, 94, 107

  Gleichschaltung, 66

  Göbel, Wolfram, 337n

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 15, 58–59, 88, 210, 300, 330n, 341n

  Goethe, Ottilie von, 15

  Goethe House, 351n

  Goethe Institute, 69, 313

  The Golem (Meyerink), 43

  Gollanez, Victor, 154

  Göring, Hermann, 70, 119, 240

  Gorky, Maxim, 46

  Grafe, Eduard, 270

  Grafe, Else Wolff, 11, 270, 342n

  Grafe, Hermann, 342n

  Gramont (Monsieur), 256

  Grass, Günter, 47–48, 111–12, 210, 212, 227, 234–35, 261–62, 313, 336n, 356n, 364n

  Gravensteen (castle), 40

  Great Depression, 57, 66

  The Great Philosophers (Jaspers), 352n

  Green, Ann, 347n

  Green, Julius, 347n

  Grellet, Stephen, 235

  Gresens (Frau), 200, 204

  Grieg, Lolo, 187–88

  Gruber, Rudolph, 362n

  Gruppe 47, 212

  Guevaras, (Venezuelan family), 249

  Gundolf, Friedrich, 13–14, 357n

  Haas, Willy, 33, 83

  Haber, August von, 29

  Haber, Cäcilie, 332n

  Haber, Fritz, 89, 341n

  Haber, Henriette, 29

  Haber, Isaac, 341n

  Haber, Leonie von, 333n

  Haber, Louis (Ludwig) von, 21, 23, 66–67, 333n

  Haber, Model (Moritz) von, 89–90, 332n, 333n

  Haber, Salomon von, 19–21, 28, 89–90, 197, 333n, 341n, 342n

  Haber Affair, 22, 25–28, 332n

  Haffner, Sebastian, 30, 72–74, 109, 272, 294, 339n

  Halakah (rabbinical law), 329n

  Hamburg Institute for Social Research, 110, 111

  Harcourt, Brace & World, 209–12, 216, 344n, 352n

  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 216, 356n

  Hardt, Kurd von, 107

  Hasenclever, Walter, 32–33, 36, 45, 68, 70, 85, 104, 331n, 334n

  Hausenstein, Margot, 257–58, 359n, 363n

  Hausenstein, Wilhelm, 257, 359n, 363n

  Hawkins, George, 22–23

  Hayes, Roland, 97–98

  Heine, Heinrich, 27, 88–89, 341n

  Heinrich, Nelly, 101

  Heinrich Scheffler Verlag, 329n

  Helen and Kurt Wolff Book(s), 209–12, 216, 290, 352n

  Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, 313

  Hemingway, Ernest, 193

  Henkel, Emmy, 292, 363n

  Henkel, Otto, 292, 363n

  Hess, Ilse, 354n

  Hess, Rudolf, 9, 202

  Hess, Wolf, 354n

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 109, 351n

  Himmler, Heinrich, 85, 119, 202–03, 205

  “Himmler of Hessen” (Bernhard Pfotenhauer), 285–92, 302, 362n

  Hindenburg, Paul von, 62

  Hintergrund für Liebe (Wolff), 339n

  Hisham (Yemeni student), 235, 237

  Hitler, Adolf

  childhood in Passau, 254, 358n

  coming to power in Germany, xiv, 1, 28, 202, 329n

  creating “dictator mania,” 287–88

  declaring himself Führer, 62

  installation as chancellor, 70

  plot to assassinate, 14, 75, 148–49, 360n

  under influence of drugs, 146–50, 204, 348n, 360n

  Vatican Concordant, 363n

  writing Mein Kampf, 9

  Hitler Youth, 5, 64, 71, 126, 264, 349n

  Höcke, Björn, 47

  the Holocaust, 64, 87, 108–12, 154, 179

  Holocaust deniers, 282

  Holocaust memorials/museums, 47, 77, 336n

  Holocaust survivors, 182, 184, 278

  homosexuality, 30, 49, 214, 264

  Huber, Hanns, 199–200

  I Ching, 356n

  Ibisevic, Vedad, 235, 237

  IG Farben, 362n

  immigrants/immigration, 29–31, 51, 73, 133, 164, 187, 191, 222–23, 236, 282, 304, 333n, 360n. See also refugees

  “In the Penal Colony” (Kafla), 44

  Insel Verlag, 14

  internment camps, 95, 104, 106, 129, 356n. See also concentration camps

  Israel/Israelis, 273–77, 279, 334n, 359n

  Iverson (Mr.), 224–25

  Jaffé, Martin, 50

  Jaspers, Karl, 189, 352n

  Javits, Jacob, 223

  Jeffords, Jim, 223

  Johnson, Uwe, 234, 312–13

  Jovanovich, William, 209, 356n

  Joyce, James, 45, 336n

  Jung, C. G., 161, 190, 352n

  Kafka, Franz, 4, 6, 16–17, 32, 34, 43–44, 65, 89, 102, 128, 135–36, 254, 300, 305, 331n, 334n, 338n, 347n, 355n, 364n

  Kahler, Erich, 185, 187

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, 207, 341n

  Kandinsky, Wassily, 45

  Kant, Immanuel, 192, 300, 341n

  Kaplan, Richard, 339n

  Karlsruhe, Germany, 19–21, 23–27, 332n

  Kindertransport (trains), 222

  King Haber (Neumann), 27–28, 333n

  Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 190

  Kißener, Michael, 361n

  Klee, Paul, 6, 45, 190

  Knopf, Alfred A., 102, 129

  Kokoschka, Oskar, 32

  Kölle, Eduard, 332n

  Kollwitz, Käthe, 190

  Krämer, Elisabeth, 78, 92

  Krämer, Emil, 92–93

  Kraus, Karl, 4, 17–18, 34, 36, 44, 89, 102, 246

  Krefeld, Germany, 10–12

  Krmer, Emil, 258

  Krockow, Christian von, 359n

  Krockow, Emmy von, 359n

  Krockow, Lubissa, 359n

  Ku Klux Klan, 351n

  Kuenstner, Molli E., 350n

  Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters, 353n

  Kurt Wolff: Briefwechsel eines Verlegers, 1911-1963, 329n, 338n

  Kurt Wolff Verlag

  about: founding, 17

  activities during WWI, 35–37

  authors/book sales, 32–33, 44, 241, 267, 337n, 340n

  business philosophy, 33–35

  colophon/publisher’s emblem, 299

  employee recollections, 83

  Nazi book burnings, 71, 278

  post-WWI developments, 44–46

  post-WWI reparations, 285

  rejection of James Joyce book, 336n

  sale of papers to Yale, 189

  shutting down the business, 1, 64–66

  “Kurt Wolff Verlag,” playing the game of, 55

  Lampedusa, Guiseppe Tomasi di, 190

  Lange, Ernst, 206, 354n

  Lange, Johannes, 206, 355n

  Lange, Ursula. See Merck, Ursula Lange

  Lasker-Schüler, Else, 89

  Le Soleil (KWV, 1920), 1

  Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Neiman), 76

  Lebenslüge (life-giving lie), 111–12

  The Leopard (Lampedusa), 190

  Lessing, Theodor, 89

  Levi, Marx (aka Mordechai ben Samuel ha Levi), 341n

  Lewis, Sinclair, 102, 129

  Lilac Girls (Kelly), 175–81

  Lincoln, Abraham, 364n

  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 191, 197

  The Longest Day (Ryan), 229

  Lookman, Ademola, 237

  Lost Treasures of Europe, 169

  Lotte in Weimar (Mann), 93, 103

  Louis I (grand duke), 20–21

  Lübeck, Germany, 1

  Ludwig, Ernst, 43

  Luftwaffe, 5, 114, 122, 141, 185, 240, 363n

  Magris, Claudio, 253

  Maier, Jena, 51

  Mann, Golo, 101

  Mann, Heinrich, 4, 7, 43–44, 63, 101–02, 335n, 344n

  Mann, Klaus, 148

  Mann, Thomas, 93, 101, 131, 158, 161

  Mannes School of Music, 187–88

  Marbach, Germany, 213–16

  Marbach am Neckar, Germany, 329n

  Marino, Andy, 102

  Marseille, France, 100, 102, 105, 107–08, 312

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, 77

  Marx, August Karl Ludwig, 29, 88, 340n

  Marx, Bertha Isabella, 14–15, 88, 98, 340n

  Marx, Henriette von Haber, 338n

  Marx, Jacob, 341n, 342n

  Marx, Jacob Meyer, 342n

  Marx, Karl, 90, 341n

  Masereel, Frans, 1, 345n

  Maupassant, Guy de, 46

  Mauthausen (concentration camp), 254

  Mayer, Elisabeth, 342n

  McKay, Jim, 273

  Mectizan (pharmaceutical), 362n

  Mehring, Walter, 4, 89

  Meir, Golda, 277

  Mellon, Mary, 190, 352n

  Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 47

  Mendelssohn, Moses, 89

  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Frlix, 89, 341n

  Meola, David, 331n

  Merck, Albert (“Albie”), 295–96

  Merck, Annemarie, 244, 247–48

  Merck, Clara, 45, 57–59, 182, 337n

  Merck, Elisabeth. See Albrecht, Elisabeth Merck Wolff

  Merck, Emanuel Carl (“Manuel), 86, 147, 168, 203, 206, 280, 346n

  Merck, Ernesta, 166–67, 203

  Merck, Fritz, 284–89, 292, 362n

  Merck, George W., 129–30, 288–89, 346n, 362n

  Merck, Johann Heinrich, 15

  Merck, Karl, 202, 222–23, 284–89, 292, 294, 362n

  Merck, Louis, 285–87, 289, 362n

  Merck, Mathilde, 202, 205, 281, 283, 333n, 361n

  Merck, Niko, 205–07

  Merck, Peter, 203

  Merck, “Tante Tilla,” 202, 205, 283, 361n

  Merck, Ursula Lange, 86, 206–07

  Merck, Wilhelm, 166–68, 202–06, 281, 284–94, 362n, 363n

  Merck & Company (U.S. subsidiary), 129, 346n, 362n

  Merck 1668-2018: From a Pharmacy to a Global Corporation (Burhop, et.al.), 361n, 362n

  Merck Darmstadt. See also Darmstadt, Germany

  chemicals and drug production, 147–50

  control during the Pfotenhauer era, 285–88

  destruction during the war, 147

  expropriation of U.S. subsidiary, 129, 346n

  Niko’s sale of stock, 203–04, 227

  post-war return to family control, 289–90, 294

  reconciling wartime activities, 204–05

  relationship with Mercedes-Benz, 166, 202

  support of Nazi war effort, 283–84, 302, 362n

  350th anniversary celebration, 279–84

  Merck’sche Familien-Zeitschrift, 361n

  Meredith, James, 336n

  Meredith, Judy, 336n

  Merkel, Angela, 30–31, 51–52, 205, 231, 281, 336n, 360n, 364n

  Meske, Joan Shepherd, 266–67

  The Metamorphosis (Kafka), 32

  Meyer, Georg Heinrich, 43

  Meyrink, Gustav, 43, 102

  Mischlinge identification/Nazi policy, 63–64, 86, 109, 200, 206, 301, 329n, 342n, 343n

  Model, Willy, 28, 333n

  Morell, Theodor, 146–47

  Morgenthau, Henry, 333n

  Mosel, Georg, 68

  Mosel, Helen, 66, 190

  Mosel, Josephine Fischhof, 66, 66–67

  Mosel, Lisel, 95

  Mosel, Ludwig (Louis), 66, 338n

  Munich Agreement, 342n

  Musil, Robert, 32, 65

  Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 148

  The Name of the Rose (Eco), 235

  Nash, John, 233

  The Nasty Girl (film), 359n

  National Socialist Flyers’ Corps (NSFK, Nationalsocialistisches Fliegerkorps), 363n

  Natonek, Hans, 100

  Neave, Alex, 176

  Neave, Elizabeth Ferriday, 176

  Neave, Mary, 176–77, 187