Women of the Third Reich seem to be back in vogue. Jane Thynne launched her new novel Black Roses, about an actress drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, at the Philip Mould gallery in Dover Street last night.
Also there was Meike Ziervogel, author of Magda, a new biography of the wife of Hitler’s propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, and Rachel Johnson, whose recent novel Winter Games is set in the same era. “There’s obviously something very strong in the Zeitgeist,” said Thynne.
Meanwhile, Philip Mould, star of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, had wanted to find an appropriate portrait from the Thirties to hang on the wall but couldn’t locate one. “We don’t trade in Nazi memorabilia but it was one of the most fascinating periods in history and there are very few portraits to illustrate it,” he told me.
