Talk:Three Men on the Bummel

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Nationalities/ ethnicities of the characters?[edit]

Normally an area in which I have no interest, but I have a meta-memory of Harris (Carl Hentschel) being described as German in one of my copies of the book. Is this true? Scarabocchio (talk) 14:44, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to the blurb about Hentschel on his boxes of correspondence at the University of Rochester[1], he was born a Pole, and was of Russian extraction.
Carl Hentschel (1864-1930) was a leading figure in illustrative print technology at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Lodz, Poland, Hentschel immigrated to England with his parents at an early age... One finds snapshots from the war years in brief references to blackouts, public morale, politics, and evidence of the prejudices Hentschel faced as a man with an ostensibly Germanic surname (Hentschel was actually of Russian extraction) living in a country at odds with Germany.
Scarabocchio (talk) 09:20, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]