Paul Grossman is a long time teacher of writing and literature at Hunter College. He is the author of "The Sleepwalkers" and "Children of Wrath".
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During the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, a young woman washes up in the Havel River in picture-perfect Old Spandau. Bodies in rivers are hardly news in the chaos of 1932 Berlin, maddened by years of war, defeat, revolution, inflation, depravity, and... SEE MORE