Later came writers and artists, including Britons W.H. The book begins in the 1920s, when Britons, especially, flocked to postwar Germany, where-beyond the cabaret acts-they were stunned to see street revolutionaries, serious food shortages, and wheelbarrow inflation.
On the tracks along the Rhine I looked out the window at hilltop castles and river steamers, but across the great plain between Frankfurt and Hanover I dug into her descriptions of Britons and Americans in Weimar and Hitler’s Germany, few of whom took the measure of the approaching evil.īoyd writes well and did dogged research in numerous libraries and private collections of papers across England, searching out letters and diaries that confided reactions (sadly, many of them positive) during summer drives to Munich or winter dinner parties in Berlin. Julia Boyd and her book about “ Third Reich travellers” were good company on my Deutsche Bahn trains across Germany, heading for Berlin. This is the second in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. Hotel Adlon, Berlin: In the 1930s a favorite of touring British aristocrats and stay-at-home Nazi hierarchs.
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