Otto Bendix: letter to wife

The letter was part of the possessions of Otto Bendix' former wife who died fairly young, having suffered the Russian occupation of Berlin and having been implicated in an East German spy-ring, incarcerated and subsequently exonerated. The depositor, who was a close friend of the latter, received the letter from her niece. 

Mrs E. Lintello, the depositor, describes in a letter to the Wiener Library in 1985 how Otto Bendix had been 'a rich and spoilt, fun-loving man of the world'. She describes his wife as 'her dearest and closest friend...[that she was] 20 years his junior, totally aryan'. She also describes how she never heard from her husband again and that all efforts to trace him were unsuccessful.