The stolen republic: Selected writings of Carl von Ossietzky;

by Carl von Ossietzky, Bruno Frei (Editor), John Peet (Translator)

English, German (translation)

263 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1971

About the author

Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist, author and publicist. He was, together with Kurt Tucholsky the Editor for "Die Weltbühne" a left-leaning German magazine from 1927 to 1933, after the Death of Siegfried Jacobsohn. In 1931 he was convicted of high treason and espionage after publishing details of Germany's violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force, the predecessor of the Luftwaffe, and training pilots in the Soviet Union.
He denied to flee the country and stayed in prison from May 10th to December 22th 1932, getting of early due to a Christmas amnesty. Only to be arrested again in February 1933, after the "Reichtagsbrand" by the Nazi-Regime which detained him at the Esterwegen concentration camp near Oldenburg.
In 1936 he was, in absence because he was still imprisoned, awarded with the Nobel Peace Price for 1935, and finally, just in time for the Olympics, released from the KZ, but stayed under police and Gestapo surveillance. He died of tuberculosis and the abuse he suffered in the concentration camps in 1938.