Oswald Dutch

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Oswald O. Dutch , until 1938 Otto Erich Deutsch (born December 17, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died February 2, 1983 in London ), was an Austro-British journalist and writer . He is not to be confused with the Viennese musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch .

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Otto Deutsch grew up in Vienna, where he studied law, economics, philosophy and musicology after attending school. During the First World War he served as a soldier at the Vienna Military Court. After receiving his doctorate in 1921, Deutsch worked as a journalist for various Viennese newspapers and for German-language papers in Prague .

As an opponent of National Socialism , after the annexation of Austria in spring 1938 , Deutsch fled via Switzerland to Great Britain, where he settled in London. In the following years he published a number of non-fiction books on current political events under the pseudonym Oswald Dutch, including a book about Austria's annexation to the Nazi state , a critical biography about Franz von Papen - about Papen's old opponent Franz von Rintelen contributed a foreword - as well as an anthology with biographical sketches of the "12 most important men of Hitler's Germany", which Deutsch / Dutch characterized as "Hitler's 12 apostles". The last-mentioned book also found attention from the party chancellery of the NSDAP , headed by Martin Bormann .

After the Second World War, Dutch was director of the ORT program for the training of displaced persons in Germany, Austria and Italy from 1946 to 1949 . He then worked as a business journalist for the BBC and ORF, among others .

Fonts (selection)

  • Thus Died Austria , Edward Arnold & Co., London 1938.
  • Germany's Next Aims , Arnold, London 1939th
  • Hitler's Twelve Apostles , Arnold, New York 1940.
    • Les 12 Apôtres d'Hitler , Paris, éditions Corrêa, mars 1940 (traduit de l'anglais par Gilles Baratier), 310 pages.
  • The Errant Diplomat. The Life of Franz von Papen , AMS Press, New York 1983, ISBN 0-404-16928-7 (reprint of the London 1940 edition).
  • Economic Peace Aims. A Basis for Discussion , Arnold Books, London 1941.
  • Pall over Europe , Gollancz, London 1942.

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 141f.
  • Zlata Fuss Phillips: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933–1950 , 2001, p. 56.
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 115f.
  • Ulrich Schlie : Tale of the end times . ( Immediately after the Nazi invasion of March 1938, a Viennese emigrant soberly and without illusion described the path to ruin. A rediscovery ) In: Wochenzeitung Die Zeit , Hamburg, No. 24, June 7, 2018, Austria edition, p. 12

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Lämmert (Ed.): Handbuch der deutschen Exilpresse 1933–1945, Vol. 2 , Hanser, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-446-12437-3 , p. 672.
  2. ^ Institute for Contemporary History: files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP , 1981, p. 596.
personal data
SURNAME Dutch, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Otto Erich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1983
Place of death London