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Frankel was born in Gera, Germany. He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area. Hitler came to power when Frankel was three years old, and Frankel remembered Germany's racial hatred: "[I] could have become a good little Nazi in his army.
The New York Jewish Week. " Abe Rosenthal, Max Frankel, Joe Lelyveld, Jill Abramson — that's four Jewish executive editors" [the top editorial post] in the three decades he was on staff, Berger said, listing the names rapidly and with emotion in his voice.
He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area. Hitler came to power when Frankel was three years old, and Frankel remembered Germany's racial hatred: "[I] could have become a good little Nazi in his army.
An only child, Frankel and his parents were members of a tiny Jewish minority in Weissenfels, a manufacturing town and minor railroad hub for central Germany. He wrote that he was not yet three years old when Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1933 and he “could have become a good little Nazi in his army.
Jun 21, 2005 · Max’s own brood comprises his wife of 30 years, Tobia, and three children. The Times can be a contentious family, and Frankel has proved he can play good daddy or stern father.
Nov 14, 2001 · Max Frankel article on failure of The Times to report and condemn Hitler's methodical extermination of Jews of Europe as it should have, which he calls century's bitterest journalistic...
Oct 8, 2008 · Max Frankel was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States, who spent his late teenage years in the Washington Heights section of New York City, like Kissinger. See Max Frankel, Times of My Life, and My Life with the Times (New York, 1999).