The historian John Wheeler-Bennett, who lived in Weimar Germany for several years and knew everyone worth knowing, described Stresemann as ‘one of the most unlovely-looking men’ he had ever seen. ‘Porcine of feature, his little eyes set close together, his hair cropped close over a nearly bald pink skull and the inevitable roll of flesh behind the neck.’5 His wife, on the other hand, so Lady D’Abernon noted, was one of the best-looking women she had met in Germany, though, she added, ‘it is not forgotten in Berlin that Frau Stresemann is of Hebrew origin’.6
Physical description of Stresemann
