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Sun May 6 19:31:10 UTC 2012

On 6 May 2012, at 21:06, Robert Orr wrote:

> one could combine the two images: "drooping cheeks like barrage balloons"? 
> 

The "Hindenburg" was a sleek zeppelin, not a barrage ballon.  Paul von Hindenburg was president of the Weimar republic for a period longer than two US presidential terms and has gone into history as the president who made Hitler chancellor. He died in office, and when Grossman wrote his text, Hindenburg's death was approximately as far removed from Grossman's point in time as perestrojka is from ours. 

As for cheeks: <http://www.solinger-tageblatt.de/Home/Solingen/General-Paul-von-Hindenburg-ist-eine-umstrittene-Figur-cb2c3f26-2d06-4e77-afcd-8f2d377355f3-947f45a1-ca5b-4175-a8ac-8b6943ef2ae6-dm>.

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