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Neiman, Susan, 76, 181, 232, 336n, 352n
neo-Nazi movement, 29–31, 31, 231–32, 358n
Neumann, Alfred, 27–28, 333n
New York Times Book Review, 134, 352n
New York Tribune, 353n
Ney, Elly, 13
Nice, France, 4, 67, 81–82, 91, 99, 102, 104–05, 333n, 342n
Niemöller, Martin, 363n
The Night In Lisbon (Remarque), 105–06
Nikolaus, Hermann, 11
Nikolaus, Johann, 11
1936 Olympic Games, 9, 236–38
1972 Olympic Games, 273–76, 279, 359n
Nixon, Richard M., xiv, 304
Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 341n
Nobel Prize for Literature, 32, 56, 89, 192, 280, 353n
Nobel Prize for Medicine, 363n
Normandy invasion, 141, 229, 357n
Norton, W. Warder, 129
Nowitzki, Dirk, 272
Noyce, Robert, 224
Nuremberg Laws, 62–63, 84, 109, 206, 338n, 361n
Nuremberg Rally (1936), 284
Nuremberg Trials, 175, 179, 202
Oberdeutsche Zeitung (newspaper), 333n
Oberheuser, Hertha, 177–80
O’Callaghan, Thomas A., 350n
Ohler, Norman, 146
Olympic Games, 9, 236–38, 271, 273–77, 279, 359n
Operation Barbarossa, 117–26, 229
Oppenheimer, Robert, 187
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt), 72
Oskar Matzerath (fictional character), 112
Owens, Jess, 236
Palm Sunday (Vonnegut), 224
Pantheon Books
about: founding, 1, 4, 130–33
books published, 112, 133–34, 173, 185–86, 189–93, 269, 345n, 347n, 352n, 353n, 356n
editors/employees, 342n, 347n, 351n
fight over ownership, 193–99, 209
founding investors, 212, 288
purchased by Random House, 353n
Pantheon Casa Editrice, 46, 67, 130
Passau, Germany, 254, 358n
Pasternak, Boris, 192–93, 197, 353n
Peeling the Onion (Grass), 111
Péguy, Charles, 134, 191, 208, 347n
Penn, William, 235
Persilscheine (de-Nazification), 294
Petzold, Christian, 108
Pfotenhauer, Bernhard (“Himmler of Hessen”), 285–92, 302, 362n
Pfotenhauer, Margo, 362n
Pfotenhauer, Ursula, 288
Pharma (Merck), 362n
Picasso, Pablo, 190
Pinthus, Kurt, 334n
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 45
Posner, Gerald, 362n
Princeton, NJ, 3, 158, 180, 218, 224
Princeton University, 169, 185–87, 220, 222, 233
prisoners of war/POW camps, 1, 40–42, 110, 121–23, 143–45, 155
Proxmire, William, 223
Puttkamer, Annemarie Merck, 244, 247–48, 251
Puttkamer, Annemarie von. See Crome, Annemarie von Putttkamer
Puttkamer, Bernhard, 264
Puttkamer, Jesko von (“Nino”), 59, 244–52, 262, 264, 267, 302, 359n
Puttkamer, Margarethe von, 248, 264
Puttkamer, Theodora Guevaras, 249–50
Pyle, Ernie, 232
The Questionnaire (Salomon), 349n
Random House, 329n, 353n
Ravensbrück (concentration camp), 175–79, 351n, 352n
Ravensburg, Julius Göler von, 23–26
RCA Corporation, 224
Redlich, Fritz, 338n
refugees, 100, 103, 107–08, 173, 184–85, 197, 236–40, 305, 336n. See also immigrants/immigration
Reichskonkordat (1933 German-Vatican agreement), 363n
Reisinger, Ernst, 86, 200–201, 206
Remarque, Erich Maria, 105–06
Rigg, Bryan Mark, 338n
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 7–8
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer), 227
Rolland, Romain, 102
Romulus and Remus (KWV colophon), 299
Rones, Erwin, 49
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 101
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 132–33
Rosmus, Anna, 358n
Rostov (fictional character), 38
Roth, Joseph, 4, 36, 65, 69, 89, 337n, 340n, 363n
Rowohlt, Ernst, 16–17
Rowohlt Verlag, 339n
Ryan, Cornelius, 229
Salomon, Ernst von, 349n
Samer (Syrian refugee), 237
Santayana, George, 279
Sarachaga-Uria, George von, 24–28, 332n
Saturday Night Massacre, xiv, 304
Sauerländer, Wolfgang, 131, 342n, 347n
Saving the Rabbits of Ravensbrück (documentary), 352n
Schabert, Kyrill, 130, 193–97, 209, 212, 353n
Schäfer, Hermann, 361n
Scheffler, Heinrich, 329n
Scheffler, Karl, 46
Schickele, René, 102
Schiffrin, Jacques, 131, 134, 346n
Schiffrin André, 353n
Schiller National Museum, 213
Schilling, Karl, 292, 363n
Schlosser, Johann Georg, 184
Schmeling, Max, 271
Schoenberg, Arnold, 89
Scholtyseck, Joachim, 361n
Schopenhauer, Adele, 15
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 88, 160
Schreiber, Manfred, 277
Schrempf, Detlef, 272
Schubert, Andreas, 142
Schumann, Clara, 10–12
Schumann, Robert, 11
Sebald, W. G., vii
Seghers, Anna, 107
Senate Watergate Hearings, xiii
Sereny, Gitta, 260
Severin, Walter, 350n
Shapira, Shahak, 336n
Shirer, William, 227
Sieber, Georg, 274–77, 279, 360n
Sievers, Wolfram, 202
Silbersohn, Käthe, 206–07
Sippenhaft, 94–95
Sledziejowska-Osiczko, Stanislawa, 180–81, 352n
Smith, Helen Catherine, 179
Snyder, Timothy, 49, 120–21, 124, 345n, 351n
Spatz, Hugo, 207
Sports Illustrated, 3, 233, 272–73
SS Ernie Pyle, 182–84, 232
Stach, Reiner, 136
Stadelmayer, Maria Wolff, 304, 310, 351n
Stadelmayer, Peter, 351n
Stauffenberg, 14
Stauffenberg, Bethold von, 14, 360n
Stauffenberg, Claus, 14, 148–49
Stauffenberg, Mafalda von, 360n
Stauffenberg, Philippe, 360n
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, 357n
Sterba, Editha, 184–85
Sterba, Richard, 184–85
Stern, Fritz, 89, 214, 215, 303, 331n
Sternheim, Carl, 4, 89
Stolperstein, 49, 74–76, 282, 292, 336n, 363n
Stresemann, Gustav, 72
Stunde Null, 281
Sultan, Grete, 356n
Tagore, Rabindranath, 32, 53, 65, 267
Tagore Award, 280
Taylor, Hugh Scott, 169
Teilhard de Chardin Association, 359n
Tempelhof/Tempelhof Field, 50, 240
Theresienstadt (ghetto), 50, 363n
Thompson, August, 351n
The Tin Drum (Grass), 112
Trakl, Georg, 4
Transit (film), 108
Transit (Seghers), 107
Treaty of Versailles, 72, 252, 285, 291
Trump, Donald J., 31, 303–05, 360n, 364n
Uhde, Anne-Marie, 95, 107
Ulaseqicz, Anthony, xiii
Ullstein Verlag, 339n
Ulysses (Joyce), 45
UniCredit, 333n
University of Chicago, 353n
Upamecano, Dayot, 235, 237
U.S. Library of Congress, 350n
Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler, 14
the Vatican, 225, 342n, 363n
Vatican Concordant (1933), 363n
Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (“working off the past”), 2–3, 76, 232, 236, 359n, 360n
Verlag C. H. Beck, 361n
Verlaine, Paul, 229, 357n
Versuchskaninchen (“the Rabbits”), 178
Vinès, Tina, 107
Vonnegut, Kurt, 224
Wacht am Rhein (aka Battle of the Bulge), 140
Walser, Robert, 65
Walter, Bruno, 84
Walter, Elsa, 84
Wannsee Conference, 108–10
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 38–39
Watergate Scandal, xiii–xiv, 223, 304
Watts, Alan, 356n
Wehrmacht. See also Germany; the Holocaust
murder of Soviet Jews, 117–26
Niko Wolff service, 1, 4, 111, 278, 337n
role in Final Solution, 110–11
Wehrmachtsausstellung, 110–11
Wehrwirtschaftsführer, 286
Weicker, Lowell, 223
Weigand (Herr), 293
Weill, Kurt, 89
Weimar Republic, 44
Weinberg, Robert, 103, 107
Weizsäcker, Richard von, 9, 229–31, 336n, 357n
Werefkin, Mikhail von, 23–26
Werfel, Alma Mahler, 84, 101
Werfel, Franz, 4, 6, 17, 32–33, 45, 64–68, 84, 89, 101–02, 331n, 334n
“Wiedersehen and Abschied: Selbstgespräche mit dem Vater [Reunion and Farewell: Interior Dialogues with Father] (Wolff), 171
Wilhelm, 354n
Wilhelm II (kaiser), 43–44
Wilhelmine era, 14, 36
Willstätter, Richard, 89
Wirth, Joseph, 199
Wirtschaftswunder, 2, 204, 260, 280
Wischmann, Elfriede (“Schescha”), 354n
Wolfe, Thomas, 237–38
Wolff, Anna, 11
Wolff, Christian
birth, 81, 104
death of father, 299
departure from Nazi Germany, 4, 91, 93
education, 271
escape to America, 4, 103, 106, 128–29, 162
Jewish background, 11
marriage, family, career, 216, 234
musical talent, 356n
recollections of family, 57, 190, 198, 338n, 346n
recollections of Niko, 184–85
relationship with Enoch, 269
relationship with father, 270
sent into hiding in France, 94–95, 99–100, 343n
Vermont farmhouse, 241, 331n
Wolff, Clara, 3, 9, 127, 278, 360n
Wolff, Elisabeth Merck. See Albrecht, Elisabeth Merck Wolff, 302
Wolff, Erna, 50
Wolff, Frank, 3
Wolff, Helen Mosel. See also Helen and Kurt Wolff Book(s)
birth, childhood and education, 66–67
correspondence from, 75, 118, 132–33, 303–04, 349n
death and burial Kurt, 213–19
death of, 235, 343n, 344n
departing Nazi Germany, 4, 70–71
describing the German people, 339n
escape to France, 78–80, 91–100, 256, 343n
escape to Italy, 82–91, 340n
escape to the U.S., 100–107, 128–29, 135–36, 346n
father’s Nazi connection, 338n
marriage and children, 70
publishing in New York, 47, 112, 129–34, 189–98, 353n
publishing in Switzerland, 189–213
relationship with author, 234
relationship with Elisabeth, 216–18
relationship with Kurt, 67–70, 209–10, 353n
return to America, 216, 234
writing a novel, 339n
Wolff, Hermann, 11
Wolff, Hope (“Holly”), 29, 331n, 333n, 341n
Wolff, Kathy, 243, 253
Wolff, Kurt (“Opa”)
about: uncovering the past of, 1–9
author’s childhood memories, 218–19
birth, childhood and education, 10–14, 248
birth of children, 44, 53, 81
children, relationship with, 71, 78–85, 134–35, 151–52, 270
death and burial, 213–15
declining health, 208–09
departing Nazi Germany, 4, 70–71
escape to France, 78–80, 91–100, 256, 343n
escape to Italy, 82–91, 340n
escape to the U.S., 100–107, 128–29, 346n
extramarital affairs and divorce, 55, 58–60, 80, 210, 250, 252
love of books and literature, 17–19, 215
marriage to Elisabeth, 15
marriage to Helen, 70
military service in WWI, 35–43, 245
as publisher of Expressionism, 338n
publishing, KWV, 14–17
publishing, Pantheon, 130–34, 189–99
publishing, Switzerland, 197–99, 209–11
Wolff, Leonhard, 10–13, 91–92
Wolff, Luise Marx (“Oma Lullu”), 91–92, 99, 342n
Wolff, Maria (daughter)
birth and childhood, 44, 53–63, 256
communications with father, 125, 129, 145, 151–63, 180, 231, 303–04, 364n
communications with Helen, 105, 131, 211–12
death and burial of father, 215
death of Niko, 298
divorce, 168
experiences of wartime, 74–75
marriage and children, 155, 161, 244
relationship with father, 71, 78–85, 134–37, 154–63, 360n
relocation to America, 351n
reunion with father, 170–75, 288
stepfather, 201, 345n, 354n
Wolff, Maria Marx (mother), 11, 18–19, 85, 87, 91, 331n, 340n
Wolff, Mary [Maria] (wife of Niko), 221, 241, 272
Wolff, Mary Neave, 187–88
Wolff, Moses, 342n
Wolff, Nikolaus (“Niko”)
about: uncovering the past of, 1, 8–9, 204, 253–62, 271–72
birth, childhood and education, 53–64, 244
conscription into Reich Labor Service, 113–14
death and burial of father, 214–16
death of, 298–99
drafted into the Wehrmacht, 1, 4–5, 114–18
duty at the Russian front, 118–27
duty at the Western front, 138–43
education at Princeton, 169, 185–87, 220, 222
employment after graduate school, 220–22, 224–25
heart attack and cancer, 242, 274, 296, 298
lack of assimilation, 271–72
living in Vermont, 241–42
marriage and children, 220
as prisoner of war, 143–45
relationship with children, 224–28
relationship with father, 71, 78–85, 134–37
release/discharge and return home, 151–53, 162–65
religion/spirituality, 297
reliving the horrors of war, 242–44
Wolff, Nikolaus (continued)
relocation to America, 169–70, 182–88
reunion with father, 170–75
stepfather, 201, 345n
undergoing de-Nazification, 165–66, 349n
Wolff, Vanessa, 3, 239, 277–79, 297, 299, 342n
Xerox Corporation, 225–26
Yale University, 189, 329n
Yolocaust (Holocaust memorial), 336n
You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 238
Zeller, Bernhard, 215
Zieher, Melanie (“Bulle”), 53–54
Zola, Émile, 46
Zuckmayer, Carl, 241, 352n
Zweig, Arnold, 89
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