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Conrad Veidt

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

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The author is saying that his arrival did not have any big impact on the country or his family’s daily life. While his mother was happy and his father felt proud, his older brother reacted with the common jealousy that an only child might feel when a sibling is born.

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