1. Dr Ernst Weiss was a German-speaking Austrian physician and author of Jewish descent.
11 Facts About Ernst Weiss
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Ernst Weiss is the author of Ich, der Augenzeuge, a novel dealing with the Hitler period.
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Ernst Weiss was born in Brunn, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to the family of a prosperous Jewish cloth merchant.
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Ernst Weiss practiced in Bern, Vienna, and Berlin but he developed tuberculosis and tried to recover as a ship doctor on a trip to India and Japan in 1912.
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In 1914 Ernst Weiss returned to Austria to start a military physician career.
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Ernst Weiss served for the duration of World War I on the Eastern Front, ultimately earning a golden cross for bravery.
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Ernst Weiss gave up medical career in 1920 when he finished working in a Prague hospital.
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Ernst Weiss applied for, but did not receive, a grant from the American guild for German cultural freedom.
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The writer Walter Mehring claimed in his autobiography that Ernst Weiss had access in Paris to Hitler's Pasewalk medical file, which had been sent out of the country for safekeeping by Edmund Forster, the psychiatrist who treated Hitler.
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Ernst Weiss committed suicide on 14 June 1940 when German troops invaded the city.
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Ernst Weiss's work is influenced by Sigmund Freud, his friend Franz Kafka, and authors of then-modern literary Expressionism.