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Heinz Wolfgang Arndt 1915-2002 from Weimar to Quadrant. (Tribute).(Obituary)

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| July 01, 2002 | Coleman, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ONE OF THE BOOKS that Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, a former editor of Quadrant, was planning when he died in May was a memoir of his German boyhood and youth. He had made lots of notes. It would have begun with his Weimar schooldays in Breslau (now the Polish city of Wroclaw, "ethnically cleansed" after the war). He would then have moved on to the Third Reich and his retreat to Oxford, and ended with his diary as an enemy alien in British detention centres. By that time, Arndt had crossed the shadow line, his youth had ended and the life of the mature man, marriage, family, career, economics--and Australia--began. It would have made a riveting story.

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