BERLIN QUOTES: LILIAN MOWRER

„Berlin sometimes reminded me of a huge railway station. It was the stopping-off place between eastern and western Europe; everyone travelling from Paris to Moscow, sooner or later, came there.“

Lilian Mowrer „Journalist‘s Wife“, published 1937 in New York (Mowrer, herself a writing contributor to British newspapers, was married to Edgar Mowrer, the „Chicago Daily News“ reporter in Berlin, winner of the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the rise of Hitler.

Photo: Schlesischer Bahnhof (now Ostbahnhof) around 1920.