Audio file 54-2

[tape starts at end of a discussion about a "black American tragedy"]

Wonga brings up Ernest and Sonja's return from their failed holiday attempt (to Côte d'Azur) at the outbreak of World War II; Wonga asks about French people whom they met but Ernest cannot remember

note that in audio file 134-2, they speak of holidaying in Brittany, not the Cote d'Azur

[tape stopped and restarted] Wonga speaks about Erwin Graumann and Hans Hartung during the War, Graumann trying to hide from the Nazis and Hartung fighting against the Nazis

Graumann and - especially - Hartung were Ernest's artist friends.

Wonga diverts about Willy Brandt, Marlene Dietrich, Goebbels, Fritz Lang, Adolf Hitler, Berlin

Wonga returns to Hartung and Graumann and the difference in their receptions by the French after World War II

Wonga speaks about the atmosphere in Paris after World War II (mentions poets Louis Aragon and Paul Éluard, and wonders if artist Bram van Velde was in Paris after the War)

France faced economic hardships after the War ended with food and housing shortage and industry ruined. It was also a time of political instability as the new French government, made up of a coalition of different (albeit left-leaning) parties, disagreed on the forms and controls of power

[tape ends]