Kurt Tucholsky
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Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
Tucholsky in Paris, 1928
Tenement house in Szczecin, where Kurt Tucholsky lived in his early childhood
Kurt Tucholsky (right), 14 years old with his siblings Ellen and Fritz (1904)
Tucholsky (far left, as "Ignaz Wrobel") in Der Roter Helfer, April 1927
Soldiers are murderers
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"Soldiers are murderers" is a quote from an opinion piece written in 1931 by Kurt Tucholsky and published under his pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel in the weekly German magazine Die Weltbühne. Starting with a
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…Kriegsanleihe) in August 1918, he returned from the war in the autumn of 1918 as a convinced anti-militarist and pacifist. In a 1931 text, he wrote Soldaten sind Mörder ("soldiers are murderers"), which subsequently led to numerous judicial proceedings in Germany. In December 1918, Tucholsky took on the role of…
A building in Berlin displays the slogan, April 2016
Kurt Tucholsky, author of "Soldaten sind Mörder"
CDU leaflet argues that "our" soldiers are not murderers ("Unsere Soldaten sind keine Mörder!")
Protest against the 2014 Munich Security Conference