One was to Heinrich Brüning, chancellor of the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932; Brettauer supported Brüning with financial contributions to his political works and, after Hitler was elected, by letting him live in his home on Lake Lugano, where the former chancellor wrote his memoirs, oversaw the publication of an anti-Fascist newspaper (financed by Brettauer), and worked to organize resistance to the Nazis, all in the service of what he hoped would be a return to power for his own German Centre Party. Brüning made his way to the United States, then back to Germany, and finally back to
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