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The Warburgs

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by Ron Chernow


  13. Ibid., p. 98.

  14. Kopper, “Nationalsozialistische Bankenpolitik,” p. 126.

  15. MMW. Kara Corp. 1938 “Agreement between Kara Corp. and the European Warburgs.”

  16. MMW. Kara Corp. 1938–1946. Letter from Liebmann to Dr. E. Spiegelberg and Hans Meyer, December 6, 1938.

  17. MMW. Affidavit of Ernst Spiegelberg, March 2, 1955.

  18. MMW. “Gespräch beim Mittagessen am 10 November, 1982,” p. 6.

  19. Felix Mitchell, interview with author.

  20. Bauer, American Jewry and the Holocaust, p. 275.

  21. Peter Fleck, interview with author.

  22. MAW. Letter from Josi Warburg, July 22, 1945.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Maria Christina Warburg (Mills), interview with author.

  25. MAW. The Eerde Herald. Vol. VIII No. 2.

  26. Maria Christina Warburg (Mills), interview with author.

  27. MAW. Letter from Josi Warburg, July 22, 1945.

  28. Maria Christina Warburg (Mills), interview with author.

  29. MAW. Application filled out on February 4, 1956.

  CHAPTER 36

  1. New York World Telegram, February 19, 1941.

  2. MMW Ma VI, letter from Max to Edward M.M. Warburg, July 13, 1939.

  3. ML. Box 8F31, letter from Max Warburg, August 31, 1942.

  4. Warburg, As I Recall, p. 70.

  5. Edward M.M. Warburg, interview with author.

  6. Warburg, Aus Meinen Aufzeichnungen, p. x.

  7. Letter from Max to Anita Warburg, November 30, 1941. (Courtesy of Anita Warburg.)

  8. MMW. Kara Corp, 1938–1946.

  9. MMW Ma VI, letter from Hans J. Meyer to Gisela Wyzanski, April 6, 1945.

  10. Warburg, Aus Meinen Aufzeichnungen, p. 146.

  11. MMW Ma VI, letter from Jimmy to Max Warburg, April 3, 1945.

  12. MMW MW 57 “Conclusions.” Undated memo.

  13. TWL. B136 F12, memo from Max Warburg, April, 3, 1942.

  14. ML. B8 F31, letter from Max Warburg to Sol M. Stroock, June 28, 1942.

  15. MMW. MW 57 “Conclusions.”

  16. Andrea Kaufman, interview with author.

  17. Lucie Kaye, interview with author.

  18. MMW. Fritz Akten. Paket 3. SGW Folder, letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, December 27, 1947.

  19. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. SGW Folder, letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, June 7, 1947.

  20. Spinelli, Erinnerungen, p. 121.

  21. Ibid., p. 117.

  22. Soley, Radio Warfare, p. 101.

  23. Videotape of Eric Warburg interview. (Courtesy of Marie Warburg.)

  24. Raymond Bonham Carter, interview with author.

  25. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Alice Warburg, September 7, 1942.

  26. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 166.

  27. Die Welt, January 23, 1988.

  28. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 186.

  29. Ibid., p. 188.

  30. Videotape of Eric Warburg Interview. (Courtesy of Marie Warburg.)

  31. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 190.

  32. Ibid., p. 158.

  33. Ibid., p. 203.

  34. Gordon, Fritz Saxl, p. 36.

  35. Farrer, The Warburgs, p. 189.

  36. MMW. Eric Warburg memoir extracts. “Air Force P/W Interrogation.”

  37. MMW. EW VIII, p. 1.

  38. MMW. Eric Warburg memoir extracts. June 1, 1945. Hermann Goring report.

  39. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 240.

  40. Ibid., p. 227.

  41. MMW. Eric Warburg memoir extracts. June 1, 1945. Hermann Goring report.

  42. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 232.

  43. Ibid.

  44. Ibid.

  45. MMW. Eric Warburg memoir extracts. June 1, 1945. Hermann Göring report.

  46. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 233.

  47. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric to Freddy Warburg, May 31, 1945.

  CHAPTER 37

  1. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric Warburg to his parents, October 18, 1944.

  2. MMW. Ibid.

  3. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric to Bettina and Nina Warburg, June 13, 1945.

  4. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 244.

  5. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric to Bettina and Nina Warburg, June 13, 1945.

  6. Gisela Wyzanski, interview with author.

  7. MMW. “Gespräch beim Mittagessen am 10 November 1982,” pp. 26, 30. Herr Sellin statement.

  8. MMW. Ibid., p. 22. Brauer statement.

  9. MMW. Fritz Akten. Paket 3. SGW Folder, letter from Siegmund G. Warburg to Hans Meyer, January 24, 1948.

  10. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 245. Also MMW “Gespräch beim Mittagessen am 10 November 1982,” p. 17.

  11. MMW. “Gespräch beim Mittagessen am 10 November 1982,” p. 18.

  12. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, pp. 301–2.

  13. MMW. EX, letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Dorothea Warburg, November 15, 1960.

  14. Warburg, Aus Meinen Aufzeichnungen, p. 157.

  15. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Max Warburg, June 21, 1945.

  16. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 207.

  17. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Alice Warburg, July 2, 1945.

  18. MMW. EV, letter from Eric Warburg to his parents, July 23, 1945.

  19. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Freddy Warburg, June 2, 1945.

  20. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric to Nina Warburg, September 16, 1945.

  21. MMW. EV, letter from Eric Warburg to his parents, May 2, 1945.

  22. MMW. EV.

  23. Gay, Jews of Germany, p. 257.

  24. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 218.

  25. MMW. EV, undated 1945 letter from Eric Warburg to his parents.

  26. MMW. EV, 1, undated Eric Warburg memo, summer 1945.

  27. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 215.

  28. Ibid., p. 147.

  29. Ibid., p. 143.

  30. Krebs, Otto Warburg, p. 59.

  31. Farrer, The Warburgs, p. 152.

  32. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 145.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Farrer, The Warburgs, p. 152.

  35. Videotape of Eric Warburg interview. (Courtesy of Marie Warburg.)

  36. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric to Bettina and Nina Warburg, June 13, 1945.

  37. George Schwab, interview with author.

  CHAPTER 38

  1. LBI-SGW-SZ. Letter from Siegmund G. Warburg to Stefan Zweig, May 14, 1941.

  2. LBI-HS. Siegmund G. Warburg Correspondence, 1938–1949. Letter from Siegmund G. Warburg, September 11, 1944.

  3. Ibid., letter from Siegmund G. Warburg, September, 11, 1944.

  4. LBI-SGW-SZ. Letter from Siegmund G. Warburg to Stefan Zweig, July 3, 1941.

  5. The New Yorker, April 9, 1966.

  6. Henry Grunfeld, speech of June 1984.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Edgar Koerner, interview with author.

  9. Andrew Smithers, interview with author.

  10. Peter Spira, Robin Jessel, interviews with author.

  11. Anthony Körner, interview with author.

  12. Margaret Anderson, interview with author.

  13. Raymond Bonham Carter, interview with author.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Margaret Anderson, interview with author.

  16. LBI-HS. Siegmund G. Warburg Correspondence, 1938–1949. Letter from Siegmund G. Warburg, September 11, 1944.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Margaret Anderson, interview with author.

  19. Warburg, An Occupation for Gentlemen, p. 241.

  20. Business Week, March 14, 1977.

  21. Alice Speyer, interview with author.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Alice Auerbach, interview with author.

  24. Ibid.

  25. Madeleine Marx, interview with author.

  26. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Max Warburg, April 18, 1943.

  27. Farrer, The Warburgs, p. 225.

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sp; 28. A former colleague of Paul Kohn-Speyer, interview with author.

  29. Bettina Warburg, interview with author.

  30. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. Letter from Fritz Warburg to Ernst Spiegelberg, May 6, 1952.

  31. MMW. Fritz Akten. Paket 3. SGW Folder. Letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Fritz Warburg, June 2, 1952.

  32. Dorothea Warburg, interview with author.

  33. MMW. EV, letter from Eric Warburg to his parents, December 13, 1943.

  34. LBI-HS. Box 11. Private Correspondence. Letter from Dr. Fritz Warburg, September 20, 1944.

  35. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Max Warburg, September 30, 1944.

  36. Ruth Fleck, interview with author.

  37. Institutional Investor, March 1980.

  38. MMW, EV, letter from Eric Warburg to Max Warburg, September 4, 1945. Fritz Akten. Paket 3. SGW Folder. Letter from Fritz to Siegmund G. Warburg, September 25, 1947. Also Ernst Spiegelberg Folder. Letter from Fritz Warburg to Ernst Spiegelberg, February 23, 1955.

  39. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 258.

  40. MMW. Ka IV, letter from Siegmund to Charles Warburg, November 19, 1945.

  41. MMW. Ka IV, letter from Siegmund to Charles Warburg, January 14, 1946.

  42. Institutional Investor, March 1980.

  43. The Times of London, January 29, 1946.

  44. Institutional Investor, March 1980.

  45. MMW. EV, letter from Max to Eric Warburg, January 30, 1945.

  46. MMW. Ab MI, letter from Max Warburg to Professor Saxl, December 11, 1944.

  47. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. Letter from Fritz Warburg to Ernst Spiegelberg, January 22, 1947.

  CHAPTER 39

  1. Farrer, The Warburgs, p. 186.

  2. Dorothea Warburg, interview with author.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid.

  5. MMW. EX, letter from Kurt Hahn to Rudolf Brinckmann. September, 19, 1956.

  6. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. “Siegmund G. Warburg Folder.” Letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, June 7, 1947.

  7. Ibid., letter from Eric Warburg to Department of State, March 8, 1949.

  8. Ibid., letter from Siegmund to Eric Warburg, March 29, 1947.

  9. Ibid.

  10. MMW. EX, letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Dorothea Warburg, November 15, 1960.

  11. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. “Ernst Spiegelberg” folder. Letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Fritz Warburg, October 26, 1947.

  12. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. “Ernst Spiegelberg” folder. Letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Fritz Warburg, May 17, 1950.

  13. AD. Box 27, letter from Eric Warburg, October 3, 1946.

  14. MMW. “Gespräch beim Mittagessen am 10 November 1982,” p. 44.

  15. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. Letter from Fritz to Siegmund G. Warburg, January 6, 1948.

  16. Ibid., letter from Siegmund G. Warburg to Hans Meyer, January 24, 1948.

  17. MMW. Fritz Warburg Akten. Paket 4. Agreement between Eric Warburg and Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co., August 18, 1949.

  18. MMW. “Gespräch beim Mittagessen am 10 November 1982,” p. 29.

  19. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 269.

  20. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. “Ernst Spiegelberg” folder. Memo by Ernst Spiegelberg, July 13, 1949. Letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Fritz Warburg, August 20, 1949.

  21. Charles Sharp, letter to the author, November 24, 1992.

  22. Institutional Investor, March 1980.

  23. Wechsberg, Merchant Bankers, p. 191.

  24. LBI-HS. Siegmund G. Warburg Correspondence, 1938–1949, letter from Siegmund G. Warburg, October 1, 1949.

  25. Dr. Carl H. Goldman, interview with author.

  26. MMW. Fritz Warburg Akten. Paket 3, letter from Siegmund Warburg to Fritz Warburg, December 12, 1949.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Anita Warburg, interview with author.

  29. Koelbl, Jüdische Portraits, p. 276.

  30. Gisela Wyzanski, interview with author.

  31. AD. Box 42. Undated 1949 memo by Eric Warburg.

  32. Bird, The Chairman, p. 285.

  33. Ibid., p. 315.

  34. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 265.

  35. MMW. EV, 1, letter from Eric Warburg to John J. McCloy, August 27, 1949.

  36. Marion Dönhoff, interview with author.

  37. Johnson, History of the Jews, p. 513.

  38. MMW. EW Ma-Mc, letter from Eric Warburg to John J. McCloy, March 1, 1985.

  CHAPTER 40

  1. JW. Box 32, Joseph Barnes 1953–68, letter to Joseph Barnes, September, 11, 1956.

  2. JW. Box 21, Stevenson folder 1947–52, letter to Adlai Stevenson, March 17, 1952.

  3. JW. Box 21, Stevenson September 1960-May 1965, letter from Adlai Stevenson to Dr. Jerome Davis, October 30, 1962.

  4. BW.

  5. Warburg, The Long Road Home, p. 227.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Warburg, Germany: Key to Peace, p. 9.

  8. Warburg, Germany—Bridge or Battleground?, p. 177.

  9. Warburg, Germany: Key to Peace, p. 173.

  10. JW. Box 15, Dwight D. Eisenhower 1948-March 1953, undated letter to Milton E. Eisenhower.

  11. MMW. Fritz Akten. Paket 3. “Siegmund G. Warburg Folder.” Letter from Siegmund to Eric Warburg, July 16, 1952.

  12. MMW. Fritz Akten. Paket 4, letter from Franz Schütte to Rudolf Brinckmann, November 24, 1952.

  13. Ibid., letter from Eric Warburg to Rudolf Brinckmann, December 1, 1952.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Ibid.

  17. MMW. Fritz Akten. Paket 4, letter from Eric to Fritz Warburg, November 21, 1952.

  18. Ibid., memo of Rudolf Brinckmann, November 16, 1952.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ibid., letter from Fritz Warburg to Hermann Schilling, November 12, 1952.

  21. Ibid., memo of Rudolf Brinckmann, November 16, 1952.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Ibid., letter from Eric to Fritz Warburg, February 9, 1953.

  25. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. “Ernst Spiegelberg Folder.” Letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Fritz Warburg, January 8, 1953.

  26. Ibid., letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Fritz Warburg, April 29, 1953.

  27. Time, April 29, 1966.

  28. MMW. Fritz Warburg Akten. Paket 4, letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, November 24, 1952.

  29. Ibid., letter from Eric Warburg to Rudolf Brinckmann, November 21, 1952.

  30. Ibid., letter from Hans Meyer to Fritz Warburg, May 26, 1953.

  31. MMW. Fritz Warburg Akten. Paket 3. “Siegmund G. Warburg Folder,” letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, June 24, 1953.

  32. MMW. EX, letter from Siegmund to Eric Warburg, July 8, 1953.

  33. Ibid., letter from Siegmund to Eric Warburg, February 6, 1954.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Ibid., letter from Siegmund to Eric Warburg, June 11, 1957.

  36. MMW. Ernst Spiegelberg Files, letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Siegmund G. Warburg, April 15, 1955.

  37. MMW. EX, letter from Ernst Spiegelberg to Eric Warburg, December 1, 1960.

  38. Hans-Dieter Sandweg, interview with author.

  39. MMW. EX, letter from Eric to Siegmund Warburg, August 12, 1963.

  40. Ibid., Siegmund Warburg memo of September 3, 1960.

  41. Max Warburg interview.

  42. MMW. EX, letter from Kurt Hahn to Eric Warburg, December 11, 1959.

  43. Ibid., letter from Kurt Hahn to Eric Warburg, December 11, 1959.

  44. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 270.

  45. The New Yorker, June 11, 1955.

  46. MMW. EX, letter from Eric Warburg to Rudolf Brinckmann, December 21, 1956.

  47. Marie Warburg, letter to the author, January 8, 1993.

  48. Ibid.

  49. Dr. Ursula Büttner, interview with author.

  50. Richarz, “Juden in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,” pp. 21�
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  51. Dorothea Warburg, interview with author.

  52. Ibid.

  53. Bing, “Aby M. Warburg,” p. 7.

  54. Jüdische Wochenzeitung, July 19, 1990.

  55. MMW. EV, letter from Eric to Max Warburg, January 27, 1943.

  56. Hamburger Abendblatt, July 11, 1990.

  57. YIVO-AJC. Alpha File, General 12, Box 190, letter from Zachariah Shuster to Dr. John Slawson, September 2, 1953.

  58. Das Freie Wort, July 25, 1953.

  59. BW. Eric Warburg File. July 15, 1949, statement of James P. Warburg.

  60. Die Welt, August 2, 1956.

  61. Warburg, Germany: Key to Peace, p. 242.

  62. YIVO-AJC. Alpha File, General 12, Box 190, letter from Eric Warburg to Eugene Hevesi, June 6, 1957.

  63. Ibid., letter from Eric Warburg to Eugene Hevesi, September 2, 1957.

  64. MMW. Z II 7b letter from Eric Warburg to Henri Nannen about October 24, 1959, letter in Stern.

  CHAPTER 41

  1. Warburg, As I Recall, p. 71.

  2. Frieda Schiff Warburg, Reminiscences, p. 185.

  3. Felicia Warburg Rogan, interview with author.

  4. Frieda Schiff Warburg, Reminiscences, p. 198.

  5. Warburg, Zeiten und Gezeiten, p. 259.

  6. MMW. Box 509. Warburg Family Akten. Eric Warburg reminiscence of Alice Warburg, July 6, 1957.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Warburg, As I Recall, p. 73.

  9. Rothschild, Sharing and Caring, p. 37.

  10. Weizmann, Trial and Error, Vol. II, pp. 456–67.

  11. CUOH-JW, pp. 47–48.

  12. Ibid., p. 48.

  13. Jewish Newsletter, June 16, 1958.

  14. Warburg, “Israel and the American Jewish Community,” p. 7.

  15. The New York Times, November 29, 1959.

  16. FW. B336 F13. “Address at Briarcliff Lodge,” September 25, 1937.

  17. Jewish Newsletter, January 25, 1960.

  18. Warburg, “Israel and the American Jewish Community,” p. 9.

  19. Marie Warburg, interview with author.

  20. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3, letter from Fritz Warburg to Hermann Brück, August 24, 1942.

  21. Ibid., letter from Ernest Minden to Ingrid Warburg Spinelli, August 19, 1952.

  22. MMW. Box 509. Warburg Family Akten, letter from Eric to Frederick Warburg, December 15, 1961.

  CHAPTER 42

  1. MMW. Fritz M. Warburg Akten. Paket 3. Siegmund G. Warburg Folder. Letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, June 7, 1947.

  2. Ibid., letter from Siegmund to Fritz Warburg, February 21, 1951.

 

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