The Great Unknown

What’s lurking around the corner?

Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

It’s 1934 in a Berlin cafe in the middle of the afternoon. Two academics are sharing kaffee and apfelstrudel while discussing current events. Suddenly Otto absurdly posits that the Second World War is coming and it’s going to be instigated by the Germans.

His companion Max retorts, “That’s impossible! We just came out of WWI. There is no way we could…