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Correspondence from Martha Küntzel to Gerald Yorke
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[9 March 1932]
A.C. will be very pleased to see you in Berlin again. This affair with Karl [Karl Germer] is also telling on his nerves, I think, and no wonder. I have been wondering long ago how he [Crowley] could stand the way Germer talked to him, or wrote to him. I suppose his never having been put in his right place encouraged him to think his letters were not read at all, so that he might say anything he liked to hurt A.C. and that's when he overdid it.
I spoke to Dr. Krumm-Heller [Arnold Krumm-Heller] some days ago, and he told me that he had twice offered him [Germer] a job that would have given him plenty of money. He refused and preferred to live and give! From his wife's money, which was not a source that could run for ever. He was always busy in some way but he never worked!
He was, what we call in German a "schoolmaster," who always seems to be before him people who need his teachings.
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