Vera Stephanie Buchthal was born in Dortmund, Germany, in September 1933, months after Adolf Hitler had come to power. Her father was a judge but, as a Jew, his career was now over. Her mother, from a ...

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A hundred years after his birth, have successors such as Robin Williams, Steve Coogan or Sacha Baron Cohen come close to matching him?

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The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?

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