Do you Sigmaringen? This city in southern Germany is home to one of the most majestic and largest European castles, cradle and setting Hohenzollern family that ruled Prussia, Romania and, of course, Germany! Its roots go back nearly a millennium and long figured among the electors of the country. On 7 September 1944, their house was requisitioned to house the Vichy government in exile. Marshal Pétain, Laval and Fernand de Brinon - who heads the government commission supposed to embody the continuity of the regime - landed Areopagus followed by their collaborators and sympathizers. Among them stands out the doctor Destouches, alias Louis-Ferdinand Céline. It told these grotesque weeks in his famous On the other castle. Apart from this novel, necessarily suspect in the eyes of some, not much had been written on this camera. Pierre Assouline threw himself into the battle, reconciling the two facets of his job: investigating journalist, writer for the review of this strange interwar history.
Here the author takes the reader on an atmosphere at the crossroads of the theater tonight, the Remains of the Day (the masterpiece by James Ivory) and a documentary about the end of things.
Sigmaringen is also an encyclopedia of conceit, megalomania and indifference that beset the supporting cast of the tragedy of the twentieth century.
Reading truly immerses us in a universe to the author.
Reading is quite fluid.
The book is very good and recommended for your library.
