Many French visitors, however, were sceptical, believing the Germans were yet again using an economic crisis as an excuse to avoid paying reparations. ‘Frenchmen returning from Berlin are full of the incredible extravagance and manifest luxury which exist there,’ the writer André Gide told Harry Kessler.29 And Emily Pollard, dining at Goslar in the summer of 1930, was able to enjoy ‘a regular feast for the gods’ that included among its six courses green turtle soup and dressed crab.
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