“I don’t know whether he actually advised him against it, but he certainly didn’t want my uncle to put himself in even more danger. It was a matter of luck that Lion was on a reading tour in America when Hitler became Reich chancellor in 1933. Fortunately, the German ambassador there was not a Nazi. He realised immediately that my uncle couldn’t go back to Germany; he would have been killed.”
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