A Widow’s Might
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By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
Published: March 11, 2007
In 1915, the 18-year-old Fräulein Klindworth married Siegfried Wagner, and thus became part of the most prominent — not to say scary — cultural dynasty in the Kaiser’s Reich. And yet she wasn’t even German. Born Winifred Marjorie Williams, she became German by adoption after she was sent from a Sussex orphanage to Berlin to be looked after by elderly distant relations named Klindworth.
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