1 Klemperer, The Lesser Evil.
2 Some of the propaganda posters from this period – stylized and striking – are on display to very fine effect at the Dresden Museum of Military History.
3 The accent was even mentioned in his obituary in The New York Times on 2 August 1973.
4 Klemperer, The Lesser Evil.
5 Ibid.
6 Like so much of Dresden’s Soviet post-war architecture, there is something now quite strangely evocative about the Barkhausen building; pictures to be found at navigator.tu-dresden.de/gebaeude/bar?language=en.
7 For a concise biography of Dr Fromme see Sächsische Biografie, saebi.isgv.de/biografie/Albert_Fromme_(1881-1966).
8 Ibid.
9 According to some accounts, Griebel was based in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Department of the college, the purity of which must have appealed.
10 The rooms of post-war painting now in the Albertinum Gallery (where in 1945 the civic authorities were based) are fascinating, and they raise the further question of whether art and ideology in the wider world are more frequently fused than we imagine.
11 In later life, Matthias Griebel became director of the Dresden City Museum; he has been frequently interviewed, and profiled admiringly, such as in this piece for Disy magazine at www.disy-magazin.de/Matthias-Griebel.337.0.html.
12 Klemperer, The Lesser Evil.
13 This shop fracas was reported in the Daily Telegraph on 27 March 1953.
14 Neal Ascherson, in the Observer, 13 February 1965.
15 This gradual restoration features as a sort of mini-exhibit in its own right in the Zwinger galleries today.
16 Some of the details were recalled by Lyudmila in Vladimir Putin, First Person (PublicAffairs, 2000), a ‘Self-Portrait’ featuring interviews with the then new president. There was also interesting BBC news coverage in September 2015 tying in with Chris Bowlby’s Radio 4 documentary The Moment that Made Putin.