All property of Emil Ludwig, eminent biographer who is in exile from Germany and a Swiss citizen, has been restored to him by the Nazi government.
This action followed representations made to Berlin by Ludwig as a citizen of Switzerland. The government of Switzerland acted in his behalf.
On December 2, 1933, funds belonging to Ludwig were confiscated by political police. The charges lodged against him were in effect that he had been active in spreading anti-Nazi propaganda abroad.
Last fall, while in the United States, Ludwig described himself as “one of the lost sons of Israel who have returned to the family.” He was not brought up as a religious Jew, he said, and believes the plight of the Jew in Germany is “hopeless.”
“I can see only one hope,” he continued, “and it is becoming slowly apparent that it may be a possibility, and that is that there will be a revolution from the bottom-a Bolshevik revolution in Germany.”
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