Uri Avnery
23.7.05
For some weeks now, a red light has been flickering in my mind, illuminating a word in large Gothic letters: Weimar.
As a 9-year old I saw with my own eyes the collapse of the German republic that came into being after World War I. It was generally referred to as the Weimar Republic, because its constitution was written in the town of the two towering figures of German Kultur, Goethe and Schiller. Some months after its breakdown, we fled Germany and thus our lives were saved.
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