Correspondence with Grossmann, Kurt R.
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Kurt Richard Grossmann (1897-1972) was a German born US-American journalist. The general secretary of the German League for Human Rights and friend of Carl von Ossietzky left the country in 1933 and settled in the US eventually. After the war he campaigned for the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish Agency and the Claims Conference. A prolific writer, he also authored numerous books, newspaper and journal articles. See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 126.
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Correspondence with Grossmann, Kurt R.
75 letters
Correspondence on a wide range of various issues, including among others the number of Holocaust victims, the German edition of Gerald Reitlinger’s study ‘The Final Solution’, or Antisemitism in West Germany. Grossmann’s own work is reflected by numerous requests for books and other source material from The Wiener Library.
Contained are: excerpts and statements on Grossmann’s book ‘Germany’s moral debt’; a post card; an article about anti-Semitic incidents in Germany (1960).
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