Almost 80 years after saving the 40,000-page collection from destruction by the Nazis, the university reaches an agreement with the Eyes Wide Shut author’s family
“Will you please answer this immediately as the matter is very urgent,” scrawled Cambridge student Eric Blackall from Vienna to his university in March 1938. Almost 80 years later, this urgent matter has been finally resolved: Cambridge University has officially acquired the archive of the great Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.
Blackall had been asked to save the archive by Schnitzler’s widow, and was desperate to spirit it out of the country before it could be burned as part of the Nazi campaign against “anti-German” literature.
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