Katja Hoyer: belief

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…How much of a spa town was it? I wouldn’t say it’s a classic spa town, but it is a town for wealthy cultural retirees. If you’re like an old general and you want to spend your last years somewhere prestigious, somewhere where there’s still a bit of culture going on, that’s more of a thing, I would say. Conferences have always taken place, like meetings. If you wanted a more prestigious place, if you wanted to say we’re discussing something important here, then Weimar was always a place where people would meet. It’s also central. It’s right in the heart of Germany. Again, whichever incarnation of Germany you look at, it always ends up being pretty much right in the middle. It’s about halfway between Munich and Hamburg. For that reason alone, it ended up being quite a popular place for people to go to visit, to meet up. Accumulatively, I would say that gave Weimar quite a large standing on the firmament of German culture. Why were relatively few Jews attracted to Weimar over the years? Again, pre-Nazi time, of course.…

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