Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country: The Autobiography of Max Corden, Economist
In: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought Ser
Intro -- Thank You -- Foreword by Martin Wolf -- Contents -- Part I: The Early Years -- 1: Breslau Boy -- A Journey to England -- This Was Me! -- From Bohemia to the Weimar Republic -- My Father, My Mother, and My Brother -- Louis Cohn from Provinz Posen -- A Flourishing Business in Breslau -- My Father Becomes Unemployed -- Aunt Elli and Aunt Siddy -- Emigration: Gerhart and Werner Emigrate -- Kristallnacht: Father Taken to Buchenwald -- My Father Comes Back from Buchenwald -- Breslau Under the Nazis -- My Comfortable Middle-Class Breslau Life -- Yes, I Saw Hitler -- Bibliography -- 2: Why Do They Hate Us So Much? -- The Green-Eyed Monster -- Heinrich Heine, an Assimilated Jew -- Anti-Semitism and the Politics of Cultural Despair -- Anti-Semitism in the Twentieth Century -- The German People and the Holocaust -- Reflections on the Green-Eyed Monster: Need for Discretion -- Bibliography -- 3: Uncle Willy: The Jew Who Loved Germany -- The War: 1914-1918 -- The End -- No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries 1933-1941 -- Why Did Willy Not Emigrate? -- Why Did Willy and Rudolf Follow Different Paths? -- Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong? -- Willy's Surprising Attitude to Germany -- Why My Parent's Prediction About Me Was Only Partly True -- Willy Always Remembered -- Speech of the Bundespräsident -- Life Under Nazi Rule -- A Film About Willy -- How the Diaries and the Autobiography Survived -- The Family Lives, Especially as Teachers -- Bibliography -- 4: The Promised Land: Migrating to the Lucky Country -- The Journey -- Who Should We Thank? -- The Adelaide Shock -- Melbourne! Fantastic Weather -- Our First Home -- Change of Names -- My Father's and Mother's Businesses -- Naturalisation 1944 -- Back to the Early Days -- My First Period in Australia: Impressions -- Appendix -- My Father's Letter to the Breslau Family 30 June 1939 -- Bibliography