Ernst Ottwalt
Playwright, Film writer
1901 – 1943
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Who was Ernst Ottwalt?
Ernst Ottwalt was the pen name of German writer and playwright Ernst Gottwalt Nicolas. A communist, he fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and went into exile in the Soviet Union, where he fell victim to the Great Purge and died in a Soviet gulag. Later, when the Allies of World War II prosecuted Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials, the chief prosecutor from the Soviet Union quoted from an anti-Nazi book by Ottwalt.
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- Born
- Nov 13, 1901
Sypniewo, Złotów County - Also known as
- Ernst Gottwalt Nicolas
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 24, 1943
Soviet Union
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on July 23, 2013
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