Historian's work

Karl Schlögel, 1995: "We move from one knot to another and never finish the tapestry. Our only criterion is the strength of the fabric and the pattern that forms from a thousand knots. The historian's work consists of connecting severed threads and rebuilding individual trajectories, connections between persons and chains of events. Our work becomes meaningful if we succeed in exposing what has thus far remained hidden."

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Shanghai in 1980, as imagined in 1930

"Here we have an artist's conception of the modern city of Shanghai fifty years from today. Mighty buildings will reach towering heights…
The people of Berlin

The air of the city that is conjured here allots them only a brief, shadowy existence. They flit alongside walls like beggars and appear…
Emigré historians (1939)

A. G. Mazour, 1939. Source

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Historian's work

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Shanghai in 1980, as imagined in 1930

The people of Berlin

Emigré historians (1939)

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