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D.
G., I am sure you have been reminded of me several times in these
last days reding the papers about Austria.
As you can imagine I have been, & am, greatly troubled by the
events.
My relatives so far as I can judge are in no sort of danger as they
ˇalmost all of them are retiering & very respected
people.
I &
My brother & sisters are, under the new laws, jews[,| (]not
however their children, (as they had no jewish grandparents
& baptized great-grandparents).
Nevertheless, of course, the new regime
29 not yet heard from home at all
since the invasion, but there hasn't yet been time, & my people would always
try to give me news in the mildest possible form so as not to worry
me.
I have written home saying that I would come any time if they
needed me, but I almost assume that they have no need for me (not that they
wouldn't like to see me).
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I am placed in a queer position.
As you know I am automatically becomming a
german Citizen, i.e. a german
30 get any job there
31 nality
the respectability etc.
etc. which (though it does not repell
me) is not what I seek.
But this can't be helped.
There is one enormously st⌊r⌋orng reason
which would ˇfor me could speak against acquiring a
new nationality & it is this, that in all
likelyhood as a
brittish citizen I shall be bared ˇby
the germans
from re entering Austria &
therefore from seeing my family, except by meeting them, say, in Switzerland.
But I don't see at present that this would be wo⌊r⌋se
ˇfor me or them tha[t|n]
ˇmy rotting
32 meetings ˇhave been held in my mind about these matters all this, but I also
wish to talk [it|them] over with you – level-headedly.
I
prop
always yours
bl. L. |
1) Gesamtbriefwechsel, Letter to G. Pattison [15.3.1938].
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