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Emil Ludwig was a German-Swiss author, known for his biographies and study of historical "greats."
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culture · German-Swiss author (1881–1948) · journalist · biographer · opinion journalist · writer · playwright · novelist · Foreign correspondent · jurist · translator · also Emil Ludwig, Ludwig
Born 25 January 1881 · Died 17 September 1948 · Q58836
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Hitler’s fanaticism against the Jews could be exploited by the Allies. The Three Powers should send a proclamation to the German people through leaflets and to the German Government through neutral countries; threatening that further murdering of Jews would involve terrible retaliation after victory. This would drive a wedge into the already existing dissension of the generals and the Nazis, and also between ultra-Nazis and other Germans.
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“Only when a society of nations has organized itself as the protector of international order will no Armenian killer remain unpunished, because no Turkish Pasha has the right to send a nation into the desert”
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Died 1948-09-17.
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Ludwig wrote a letter to The New York Times where he urged that "Hitler’s fanaticism against the Jews could be exploited by the Allies
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“Hitler’s fanaticism against the Jews could be exploited by the Allies. The Three Powers should send a proclamation to the German people through leaflets and to the German Government through neutral countries; threatening that further murdering of Jews would involve terrible retaliation after victory. This would drive a wedge into the already existing dissension of the generals and the Nazis, and also between ultra-Nazis and other Germans.”
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Later emigrating to the United States in 1940
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Wrote several similar biographies, including one about Bismarck (1922–24) and another about Jesus (1928)
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Moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul
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Born 1881-01-25.
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