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Reviewers of the time differed from each other as to whether the letters contained in this book were fact or fiction. The publishers wrote the editor of the "Book Review Digest" on September 13, 1917 that "We don't know and we have no means of finding out."
The letters purport to be written to a mother by a young Englishwoman with a talent for music who goes to Germany to study the violin, and is in Berlin from May to August, 1914. Christine believes all Germans to be “simple and kindly." Her disillusionment begins in Frau Berg's middle-class boardin-house where “she becomes a target for the Anglophobe remarks of the other boarders," and is continued in the home of a family of the "junker-military-official military set," where she goes to live later because she has become engaged to a young officer in the Prussian army with a leaning towards music. The point of view of the well-to-do country folk is given when she goes for a short rest to the home of a forester and his wife at Schuppenfelde.
The artistic set is represented by her violin teacher. Kloster, who seems to stand "for fearlessness, for freedom, for beauty, for all the great things," but is silenced when the government "chokes him with the Order of the Red Eagle, First class."
When war comes. Christine's situation becomes impossible and she starts to join her mother in Switzerland, but contracts pneumonia on the way and dies in a hospital at Stuttgart.
The letters purport to be written to a mother by a young Englishwoman with a talent for music who goes to Germany to study the violin, and is in Berlin from May to August, 1914. Christine believes all Germans to be “simple and kindly." Her disillusionment begins in Frau Berg's middle-class boardin-house where “she becomes a target for the Anglophobe remarks of the other boarders," and is continued in the home of a family of the "junker-military-official military set," where she goes to live later because she has become engaged to a young officer in the Prussian army with a leaning towards music. The point of view of the well-to-do country folk is given when she goes for a short rest to the home of a forester and his wife at Schuppenfelde.
The artistic set is represented by her violin teacher. Kloster, who seems to stand "for fearlessness, for freedom, for beauty, for all the great things," but is silenced when the government "chokes him with the Order of the Red Eagle, First class."
When war comes. Christine's situation becomes impossible and she starts to join her mother in Switzerland, but contracts pneumonia on the way and dies in a hospital at Stuttgart.
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