Louis Fles
Businessperson, Author
1871 – 1940
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Who was Louis Fles?
Levie Jacob "Louis" Fles was a Dutch businessman, activist and author. He was a member of the organizing committee of the 1928 Summer Olympics. Louis Fles is best known for writing and broadcasting against Zionism and organized religion.
Fles was a strong supporter of Jewish assimilation and had a complex relationship with the Dutch Social Democratic Workers' Party. He was a strong criticizer of Nazism, for example in his work from 1933 Hitler, hervormer of misdadiger? and committed suicide at the conquest of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany.
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- Born
- Oct 19, 1871
Maassluis - Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- Died
- May 24, 1940
Amsterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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