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The tangentleman
It’s always tempting to look at people’s lives and think, what if? In the case of Joseph Berkmann, what if he had completed his schooling, gone to university, and become – what? The sort of Mercedes-driving Austrian plutocrat who roars up behind you on the motorway, headlights flashing? Probably not; but it’s impossible to guess, because the event that changed the course of his life also changed Austria and the world: it was the Anschluss. ...
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