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Mehring emigrated to Vienna, where he met the actress and writer Hertha Pauli. She was his companion during his escape from the Nazis through France. He dedicated his "Briefe zur Mitternacht" ("Midnight Letters") to her. The period spent in France he also described in No Road Back.
Apr 7, 2023 · Like in the show, Walter died by suicide on the French-Spanish border, thinking he was going to be turned over to Nazis. Read Walter Benjamin's work.
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He was forced to flee from the Nazis again in 1938 when they “integrated” Austria into the Reich. He managed to escape to Paris via Switzerland, joining Willi Münzenberg’s German-French Union (Union franco-allemande) in 1939. Walter Mehring was interned in various camps in 1940.
Later in his exile, Mehring again avoided being arrested by the Gestapo several times at the last moment, such as in March 1938 during the Anschluss of Austria, during the invasion of German troops in France in June 1940 and during his escape from Marseilles in February 1941.
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Apr 7, 2023 · In one episode, satirist Walter Mehring goes stir-crazy when Paul and Albert hide him in a hotel room for several days; eventually, he channels his frustration into a full-on, choreographed...
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In 1941 Mehring fled to New York, escaping from an internment camp in Southern France. There he remained from 1941 until after World War ii, living under difficult conditions but continuing to write such books as No Road Back (1944) and The Lost Library (1951; Die verlorene Bibliothek.
After the invasion by the German Armed Forces in Belgium, Holland and France, like countless other refugees, Walter Mehring rescued himself by escaping to the unoccupied zone in the south of France and came to the crowded city of Marseille after several weeks of being on the run.
