Kurt Tucholsky, feared by the Nazis for his trenchant pen, committed suicide at Hindaas, Sweden, on Dec. 20 by taking an overdose of a narcotic, it was revealed today.
Co-editor with Carl von Ossietzky for years of the satirical Weltbuehne, Tucholsky, who was Jewish, was forced to leave Germany by Nazi death threats even before the Hitler regime.
Although he foresaw the Nazi rise to power, he wrote practically nothing on Hitlerism after 1933. He said that there was nothing left to say on the subject.
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