The house at the bridge

by Katie Hafner

1995 256 pages eng

At the turn of the century, when Prussia was at its peak, the Wallich family, wealthy German-Jewish bankers, owned a splendid Italianate villa a few dozen yards from the Glienicke Bridge over the Havel River in Potsdam, just across from Berlin. The Wallichs lived there until the Nazis began seizing …