The “Spiegel” Affair

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

I wonder whether anybody not living in Germany and not reading Der Spiegel regularly, can grasp the nature of the excitement which has dominated the country for the past several weeks to such an extent that it largely overshadowed the Cuban crisis. Der Spiegel is a weekly review published in Hamburg by a certain Rudolf Augstein, who is not, as has been insinuated from time to time, a Jew. Herr Augstein’s “Augean Stable,” as it is often called, originally copied Time magazine in rather slavish fashion. Der Spiegel—it means “The Mirror”—is a classic example of the dangers of transplantation in general and, in particular, of the swift degeneration of certain things American when transferred to Europe.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

I wonder whether anybody not living in Germany and not reading Der Spiegel regularly, can grasp the nature of the excitement which has dominated the country for the past several weeks to such an extent that it largely overshadowed the Cuban crisis. Der Spiegel is a weekly review published in Hamburg by a certain Rudolf Augstein, who is not, as has been insinuated from time to time, a Jew. Herr Augstein’s “Augean Stable,” as it is often called, originally copied Time magazine in rather slavish fashion. Der Spiegel—it means “The Mirror”—is a classic example of the dangers of transplantation in general and, in particular, of the swift degeneration of certain things American when transferred to Europe.