News about Gustav Mahler

Alice Frank Stock (pictured left at her Bristol care home and right in the 1950s) fled the Nazi empire just before the Second World War broke out and moved to Britain, where she lived for the remainder of her remarkable life. She spent years in the same apartment block as the tyrant (inset top) when growing up in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. The centenarian's family lived in Prinzregente, Munich, just steps away from the future Führer, who lived until he became Chancellor in 1933. Hitler's apartment was also the birthplace of the Nazi Party. Alice said in a brief interview shortly before her death, she said she would often see Hitler being rushed into the building flanked by towering SS guards, most likely afraid of an assassination attempt.