Kurt Caro

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Kurt Michael Caro (born July 25, 1905 in Berlin ; died June 24, 1979 in Zollikon ) was a German publicist .

Life

Caro studied law and completed his legal clerkship. He then became a journalist and from 1930 was editor-in-chief of the Berliner Volks-Zeitung . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to France .

In Paris in 1936 he published Hitler's treatise “Mein Kampf” under the pseudonym Manuel Humbert . Poetry and Truth , for which Heinrich Mann wrote the preface. In this book he analyzed anti-Semitic race theory and challenged Hitler's claim that Judaism was a race of its own. Central European Judaism itself is divided into racial percentages as follows: "23.8% Lapponid race, 21.5% Nordic race, 20.3% Armenian race, 18.4% Mediterranean race, 16.0% oriental race".

Kurt Caro also worked as an editor for various newspapers in exile, until he joined the French army in 1939. From 1943 he was a member of the British Army.

After the Second World War , Caro was editor-in-chief of the world press published in Vienna until 1950 . He then worked in the Foreign Office in Berlin and at the British Embassy. He then worked from 1958 to 1972 as editor-in-chief for Weltwoche in Zurich , interrupted from 1964 to 1970 by a managerial position at the Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung .

Fonts

  • with Walter Oehme : Is the Third Reich coming? Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1984. ISBN 3821809035 ( facsimile edition of the first publ . From 1930)
  • with Walter Oehme: Schleicher's rise. A contribution to the history of the counter-revolution . Berlin: Rowohlt, 1933.
  • Under the pseudonym Manuel Humbert: Hitler's "Mein Kampf". Poetry and truth . Paris, 1936.
  • The People's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . Cologne: Kiepenheuer, 1965

literature

  • Caro, Kurt. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 15-18.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 108f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuel Humbert: Hitler's "Mein Kampf". Poetry and Truth , 1936, pp. 135ff.
personal data
SURNAME Caro, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caro, Kurt Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1979
Place of death Zollikon