– “You will love parts of Europe. I think you would like the little country I am in now. The people are good and veryindustrious. I haven’t come across a poor family here. They are robust and healthy, a surprising number speak English; in some sections the children go to school twelve months of the year (…)” Reeves to Carson, 17 October 1944, Luxembourg, in World War II Correspondence of Carson and Reeves McCullers, in Illuminating & Night Glare – The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Carlos L. Dews, Ed.), 1999, p. 87, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press

– “I love all that you write about Luxembourg.”
Carson to Reeves, Nyack, N.Y., Thanksgiving (November 22, 1944), in World War II Correspondence of Carson and Reeves McCullers, in Illuminating & Night Glare – The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Carlos L. Dews, Ed.), 1999, p. 97, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press

– “Die amerikanische Armee bewegte sich über Longwy auf Luxemburg zu. (…) Gewaltige Schornsteine stellten sich ein, man geriet in das Hochofengebiet. (…)” Alfred Döblin, 1981, November 1918 – Romantetralogie, Band 1: Bürger und Soldaten, S. 289, 290, 291, 292, Berlin: Rütten & Loening

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