Hilde Eisler is sometimes described as a German journalist of Jewish provenance.
21 Facts About Hilde Eisler
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Hilde Eisler was born in what was, at the time, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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Hilde Eisler did come from a Jewish family, though on account of her non-stereotypical blonde hair and blue eyes this was not immediately obvious to Gestapo officers and other government officials with whom, usually on account of her record of Communist involvement, she came into contact after the Nazi power seizure of 1933.
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Hilde Eisler spent most of 1935 in prison and escaped into exile from Germany in 1936.
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Hilde Eisler's father, Salomon Vogel-Rothstein was a Jewish merchant, and it was in connection with his work that when she was six months old the family relocated to Antwerp in Belgium.
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Hilde Eisler attended the city's Jewish lyceum and was a member of the Jewish Pathfinder Association.
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Hilde Eisler was to work as a courier, traveling back into Germany with the leaflets in her luggage.
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Hilde Eisler managed twelve such missions, but early in 1935 she was caught on the thirteenth trip.
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Hilde Eisler supported herself with a series of casual jobs, at one stage wrapping sweets for a living.
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Gerhart Hilde Eisler was interned by the French in 1939, but in 1941 he became a beneficiary of an offer of political asylum for Spanish Civil War veterans by the Mexican government.
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Hilde Eisler was now permitted to emigrate from France to Mexico, with Rothstein who was registered on relevant documentation as his fiancee.
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War ended in May 1945 and Gerhart Hilde Eisler was keen to return to Europe.
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Gerhart Hilde Eisler was denounced as a Soviet agent by a party comrade and accused by the authorities of having lied about his Communist Party links on his immigration application.
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Press reports surfaced indicating that Hilde Eisler was the "boss of every red, directly controlled by the Kremlin".
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Hilde Eisler traveled across the country, from New York to Hollywood, gathering support and money to fund her husband's defense.
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However, in May 1949, temporarily at liberty pending his final appeal, Gerhart Hilde Eisler managed to escape by pretending to be blind and smuggling himself on board a Polish liner, which then dropped him off unceremoniously in London from where, after several further unpleasantnesses, he was freed and permitted to move on to Germany.
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Hilde Eisler was invited to inform on her husband, in return for which her US interrogators offered to give her a permanent visa.
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Hilde Eisler found a city transformed, and not just by bombs and Soviet artillery.
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Hilde Eisler became a member of the "Defence Committee for Victims of American Reactionism".
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Hilde Eisler took over from Heinz Schmidt as editor in chief starting with the June 1956 issue.
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Hilde Eisler retired in 1976 or 1979 but retained her links with Das Magazin till her death in 2000.