Abstract
The following essay is a personal consideration of the eighty-sixth anniversary of the beginning of World War II. I am asking how post war anxiety influenced my academic work and discuss the issues that I addressed in my biography of Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski (1901-1964), a physicist, communist and businessman who wrote about his imprisonment in the Soviet Union (1937-1940). My concluding remarks touch on today’s dilemmas.
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