Dr Leo Löwenstein (1879-1956) was a Jewish-German physicist and chemist. The World War I veteran, who invented artillery sound ranging, had founded the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (RjF; Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers) in 1919. In 1943, Löwenstein was deported to the Theresienstadt (Terezin). Upon his liberation he emigrated to Sweden and later to Switzerland. See Walk, J., <a href"http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1957">Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 245.
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Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence regards a request by German right wing magazine Nation und Europa to Löwenstein to author an article for one of its issues. Contained are transcripts of the according correspondence, reflecting Löwenstein’s conservative positions. Furthermore, Löwenstein and Alfred Wiener discuss some personal matters as well as the option of writing an eyewitness account for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.
Correspondence with Löwenstein, Leo