Savage Symphony

s/t: A Personal Record of the Third Reich
The wife of the anthropologist & National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei member, Julius Lips (1895-1950), a cultured woman & a liberal, gives an account of their life in Cologne after the advent of the 3rd Reich. Both of them were by nature retiring, scholarly citizens, & withdrawn from the activities of the Hitler regime which seemed to them a temporary farce. Shortly after the Nazis took control of Cologne, they demanded that he sacrifice science to the interests of the party & he refused. He withdrew, temporarily, from the Museum, & there followed the record of indignities & petty revenge, trying to humiliate & discredit him, because, he would neither compromise with Hitler, nor leave the country. An illuminating picture of everyday atrocities, of the legal, cultural & political degeneration of a city, & of the Lips, deserted by everyone. Illuminating in the revelation of Hitler's throttle-hold over all activities. The book is a vivid protest against fascist tyranny--an interesting book to read as footnotes to the husband's The Savage Hits Back.--Kirkus
Introduction
Prelude in Fortissimo
Vivace-Struggle with the Lemurae
Finale-A Beginning