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Julius Zerfaß

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Julius Zerfaß (Kirn, 4 February 1886 - Zürich, 24 March 1956) was a German journalist of the anti-Hitler "Poison Kitchen" group of the 1920s. He was interned at Dachau Concentration Camp but on release escaped to Switzerland, where he published Eine Chronik (1936), one of the first accounts of the camp, under the pseudonym Walter Hornung.[1]

References

  1. ^ Fred Oberhauser, Axel Kahrs Literarischer Führer Deutschland 2008 p.99 " Julius Zerfaß (1886-1956), seit 1913 freier Sachschriftsteller in München und in zahlreichen Anth. proletarischer und politisch engagierter Dichtung vertreten. Er wurde 1933 in das KZ — Dachau/BY eingeliefert und floh nach seiner Entlassung "