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    Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany
    Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany
    Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany
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    Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany

    By Werner Schlesinger

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    In April, 1933, Werner Ludwig Schlesinger was on his way to work at the German Appeal Court when a band of Brownshirts approached him and asked whether he was Jewish. Upon admission of his ethnicity, he ‘collected the hiding of his life’ and was forbidden further work at the German courts.

    As he had both a law degree and a journalism degree, he was able to find work at a Jewish newspaper. His next three years were spent, amongst other things, covering Jewish events, witnessing the birth of rockets and television, and Einstein’s farewell speech at the Westend Synagogue in the Princzregentenstrase.

    As one of only three Jews in Berlin with the requisite journalism degree, he was responsible for signing off on the copy of other Jewish Journalists in the city. Often this was dangerous work. If he did not read the copy too carefully, and something that offended the Nazis slipped through, his life would be forfeited.

    In 1936, while on holiday in Switzerland, he received a telegram from his mother not to return. As he had been expecting a visit from the Gestapo, he made his way to South Africa. This is the story of those long three years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTessa Schlesinger
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781458079541
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      Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany - Werner Schlesinger

      MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH JOURNALIST IN NAZI GERMANY

      By

      Werner Ludwig Schlesinger

      25 March 1910 – 7 November 1984

      Dedication: For my three children, Tessa, Charmaine, and Marcel.

      Copyright (c) 2011 by Tessa Schlesinger

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy.

      From the Editor – Tessa Schlesinger

      The reprint of this book is dedicated to the memory of my late father, Werner Ludwig Schlesinger. He wrote this article in 1983 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nazi boycott of Jewish business which started on the 1st April, 1933. He was a native of, and resident in, Berlin at the time. He was just completing his training in the German courts in order to pass the equivalent of his board exams. He already had his law degree.

      In 1983, it was published over a period of six months in various Jewish newspapers in South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

      At a time when there are numerous movements in the world moving towards the far-right, this booklet reveals some of the similarities of the world in the 30s to those that are increasingly part of our world now.

      ‘The absentminded professor’ was always a very elegant man, a clever man, a kind and charming man, and though he has been gone for more than three decades now, I remember and miss him still.

      Table of Contents

      1. Before the Holocaust - the bets we had on LeoBaeck’s sermons

      2. Mystery of the Editor who Fled.

      3. Was the Flying Baron Jewish?

      4. Sitting Duck Editor

      5. The Day a Censor Said No

      6. Student Fairy-tale Became Terror of War

      7. Afterword

      A scan of the tear sheet of my late father’s memoirs serialized in the

      Jewish Telegraph in April, 1983.

      Before the Holocaust - the bets we had on LeoBaeck’s sermons

      My father met Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck wearing a chaplain’s uniform in German occupied Russia. The occasion was a Rosh Hashannah service for Jewish soldiers of the Kaiser’s army. The year was 1916.

      Half a decade later, Dr. Baeck conducted the

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