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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alfred_KerrAlfred Kerr - Wikipedia

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   His books were amongst those burnt in May 1933 by the Nazis when they came to power; Kerr had attacked the Nazi Party publicly very early on and Goebbels said before Hitler came to power that Kerr would be one of the first he would shoot. He lived in penury in London.

2. encyclopedia.ushmm.org › en › articleAlfred Kerr | Holocaust Encyclopedia

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   When the Nazis came to power, they indexed his books and burned them. In 1933 Kerr and his family fled Germany for London via Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and France. These years of exile were described, from a child's perspective, by Kerr's daughter in her book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

3. www.the-tls.co.uk › lives › biographyAlfred Kerr by Deborah Vietor-Engländer book review | The TLS

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   Jul 28, 2017 · Alfred Kerr (1867–1948) was one of the leading writers of the Weimar Republic. Foremost, he was a theatre critic; but he wrote astute feuilletons, travel pieces and city sketches; and he was also a felicitous poet.

4. britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk › european › 2013Coming to England with Alfred Kerr - European studies blog

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   He knew many of the major cultural and intellectual figures of his day and was indeed counted among them: the list of contributors to a ‘Book of Friendship’ published in Kerr’s honour in 1928 reads like a who’s who of contemporary German letters.

5. theconversation.com › judith-kerr-read-herJudith Kerr: read her autobiographies to understand The Tiger ...

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   May 24, 2019 · Her father, Alfred Kerr, a well-established and respected German-Jewish theatre critic was a vocal opponent of the Nazis (his books were burned by them after he fled Germany in 1933).

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6. www.peterlang.com › document › 1323014I Went to England - Peter Lang Verlag

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   Forced to flee Germany, the eminent drama critic, poet and fiercely vocal anti-Nazi journalist, Alfred Kerr, settled in London in 1935 and became deeply attached to the calm and decency he found in the «island people».

7. www.jewage.org › wiki › enAlfred Kerr - Biography - JewAge

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   His books were amongst those burnt in May 1933 by the Nazis when they came to power; Kerr had attacked the Nazi Party publicly, and he had already gone into exile with his family. After visiting Prague, Vienna, Switzerland, and France, he came to London in 1935 where he settled, in penury.