who a year after the crash was lodging in a tenement slum with his current boyfriend’s family, was closer to the truth when he later wrote: ‘Here was the seething brew of history in the making – a brew which would test the truth of all the political theories, just as actual cooking tests the cookery books. The Berlin brew seethed with unemployment, malnutrition, stock market panic, hatred of the Versailles treaty and other potent ingredients.’31
