on her new marriage with half a million marks and also to give her new husband as a wedding present the Friedländer Schloss at Schwannwerder." Actually the Jewish merchant Friedländer had been her stepfather and thus made her Magda Friedländer. Before industrialist Günther Quandt married her in 1921, on request of her mother's first husband, Dr. Ritschel, Magda was registered as his daughter. After her divorce from Quandt in 1929 Magda married Goebbels in 1931 and bore him six children. In 1934 the Goebbelses settled on the island of Schwanenwerder buying cheaply from persecuted Jews. In chapter 49 the first film shown at the festival is Hitlerjunge Quex, an early Nazi film of 1933, on the next day to be followed by the premiere of a new film on the life of Horst Wessel. The reader is correctly informed that already in 1933 a film on Horst Wessel had been made, but out of "suspicions that the film would not really serve ... the name of the hero had been changed to Hans Westmar." That the premiere of Hans Westmar had actually, as the novel states, been attended not only by Hermann Göring but also by Wilhelm Furtwängler is unlikely. In the fictional Horst Wessel film Toomey gets to see, the Berliner Wessel is played by the popular Viennese actor Paul Hörbiger. Wessel had died in February 1930 at the age of 22 (the novel says the funeral was in 1929). Hörbiger in 1936/37 was 42 years old and married with four children. The novel describes him as “quite clearly to me homosexual: impulses flashed between us in the garish swastika-flagged eau-de-cologne-sprayed entrance hall.” This has nothing to do with the real Hörbiger. The fictional writer Jakob Strehler, whose work Toomey starts reading, is said to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935. The prize was not awarded that year. References 1980 British novels Books about popes Hutchinson (publisher) books Novels by Anthony Burgess Novels set in the 20th century Catholicism in fiction