What is the meaning of the first sentennce? ‘What I love is this taste of transience on the tongue,’ said Max Reinhardt, the Berlin stage and film impresario who would train Marlene Dietrich and manage the Deutsches Theater. ‘Every year might be the last year.’

what's the meaning of the last sentence ? ‘After people love one another something very sad is left behind,’ she writes. ‘Life remains always life to live, and so is earthbound. Perhaps, for that reason, life is all the more beautiful, for it is always permeated with this sadness. Why do tears run down people’s faces when they see the most basic, human sights? Because to become one with the earth is the most frightening reality".

How to understand tha last sentence? The Kaiser’s ‘sinners’ are the Berlin Secession, a breakaway band of painters and sculptors who champion modernism and introduce Berlin to Monet, Manet, Munch and Cézanne. Käthe takes part in their fi rst show and its success makes heavy industry and its victims an accepted subject.

How to understand the last two sentence? Karl’s patients become her models, as do her sons. Käthe labours to capture in her images ‘things seen and experienced from the soul’. At her studio table she works as if possessed, sleeves rolled up, hair falling into her eyes, as if to get her visions out of herself. ‘I have never done any work cold,’ she confesses. ‘I have always worked with my blood.’

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In this paragraph, how to understand " clicks its heels, snaps to attention" ? In 1914 Peter Kollwitz is eighteen years old, slogging through the mire with other freshfaced volunteers. Ranks of engineers drag up the artillery. Horsedrawn ammunition columns are whipped towards the front. Offi cers in staff cars stand ramrod tall and bark orders for die große Schlacht, the great battle which will punch through the Allied lines. The Imperial Fourth Army clicks its heels, snaps to attention, stands poised to seize Calais and swing south to Paris. A shrapnel shell bursts overhead, two bivouacs catch fire, a week’s rations go up in smoke, yet wave after wave of young men run on into the thunder, singing as they reach for victory.

How to understand the first sentence? In Berlin evil has postcodes. At 10117 in Göring’s Air Ministry on Wilhelmstraße, the bombing of Guernica was planned and the results (number of deaths per kilo of explosive) analysed in preparation for the Nazis’ Blitzkrieg of Europe. At 10178, where Schinkel had dreamt of a new kind of museum and Lilli Neuss awoken a long-forgotten dream, thousands of Berliners gathered to hear Goebbels speak, crying out on cue, ‘Hang them! Hang the Jews!’ Across Unter den Linden on Opernplatz, students wearing green and purple fraternity caps piled thousands of banned books (Diary of a Lost Girl among them) and set them alight, watching the half-burnt pages whirl in the night air like inky moths.

How to understand the last sentence? Three dozen dogs were leashed to stakes hammered onto a frozen plain. As the yellow cloud rolled towards them the animals howled in terror, straining against their leads. When it enveloped them a pitiful wail fi lled the hollow of the sky. Clara Haber seized her husband’s hand, digging her nails through her gloves and into his skin. Within a minute both gas and sound dissipated, and the corpses of the dead animals lay on the slashed earth, the heat of their bodies melting the surrounding snow. Haber checked both his shock at the speed of death, and his euphoria for the ghastly triumph.

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