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Interviewer Andre Müller introduces this discussion with sculptor Arno Breker with the following words:

During this interview, which was conducted at Breker's Düsseldorf home, his wife and his art dealer, Joe F.

Bodenstein, to whom the artist is bound by contract, were in attendance. Each of them interrupted the conversation a number of times to prevent the discussion from centring for too long on the topic of the artist's political situation.

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Breker himself made no objections. When he mentioned the tragic consequences of his professional activities under Hitler, his isolation and desperation, his wife trembled with laughter. When I asked her what she found so amusing, she replied that normally her husband spoke in a completely different way.

During a stroll around the garden, where several sculptures dating from the National Socialist period were on display, she told me: "I don't listen when he tries to discuss politics, it bores me." A m