'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
If, as historians have increasingly come to believe, the 20th century's two world wars were in fact one conflict, then German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, murdered by anti-Semitic zealots in 1922, was as much one of its casualties as any soldier who died on its battlefields or perished in one of its death camps.
As Ms. Volkov writes, "The story of such a life is doubtlessly the stuff of which tragedy is made."
