Paul Frischauer, noted Austrian Jewish novelist, playwright and biographer, revealed today why he is one of the few Jewish authors whose work was not banned in Germany or burned with the other writers whose work the Nazis disliked.
According to Herr Frischauer, he presented a copy of his latest works, a biography of Prince Eugene, to President von Hindenburg, who accepted the gift, thus making it very hard for the Nazis to ban a book which is to be found on the shelves of the President’s library.
Another work of Herr Frischauer, a biography of the Italian liberator, Garibaldi, is also unlikely to be banned by the Nazis. During the course of a recent visit to the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, he complained to Mussolini that he was unable to sell his books in Germany, whereupon Mussolini suggested that he himself write an introduction to the book saying, “Now I don’t think that the Nazis will burn it.”
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