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But were it not for the 1920s, and for the historical value of the Nazi and East German documents, this collection might rival Ruritarian Photographs of a Century , with its obligatory nods to every passing wrinkle of fashion devised elsewhere, its dull portraits of statesmen unknown outside the fatherland, its honorable but unexceptional petits maîtres . This, from a nation which invented the Leica, comes as something of a surprise.
Parallel to the worldwide independence movements in the 1960s, Québécois separatists fought elections demanding to be “maîtres chez nous” (“masters in our own home ”).