1. Louis Fischer, the son of a fish peddler, was born in Philadelphia on 29 February 1896.
17 Facts About Louis Fischer
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On his return to the United States, Louis Fischer took up work at a news agency in New York City and met Bertha "Markoosha" Mark.
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In 1921, when Bertha went to work in Berlin, Louis Fischer joined her a few months later and began contributing to the New York Evening Post as a European correspondent.
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In 1923 their first son George was born and Louis Fischer began working for The Nation.
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Louis Fischer served as a volunteer in the British Army between 1918 and 1920.
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Louis Fischer covered the Spanish Civil War and for a time was a member of the International Brigade fighting General Francisco Franco.
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Louis Fischer continued to work for The Nation and wrote his autobiography, Men and Politics.
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Viktor Fischer, Louis Fischer's son, was a close friend of Lothar Wloch, the son of Wilhelm Wloch and "Koni" Konrad Wolf who was the Stasi spy master Markus Wolf's brother and uncle of Franz Wolf, who is very close to Vladimir Putin.
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Louis Fischer left The Nation in 1945 after a dispute with the editor, Freda Kirchwey, over the journal's sympathetic reporting of Joseph Stalin.
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Louis Fischer began writing for anti-communist liberal magazines such as The Progressive.
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Louis Fischer taught about the Soviet Union at Princeton University until his death on January 15,1970.
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Louis Fischer traveled to Ukraine in October and November 1932 for The Nation, and was alarmed at what he saw.
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In 1934 Louis Fischer accused the Hearst press of attempting to "spoil Soviet-American relations" by running "an anti-red campaign".
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Myra Page was clear that Louis Fischer knew that, in the wake of Stalin's collectivization and grain seizures, there had been mass starvation.
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Louis Fischer had discussed the famine with her in Moscow in 1933, and indeed tried to persuade her "to go down to the Ukraine" and see for herself.
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In Gandhi and Stalin, Louis Fischer relates Mahatma Gandhi's response to the question of how pacifists should respond to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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Louis Fischer describes Gandhi as arguing in 1938 that German Jews ought to commit collective suicide in order to raise awareness of Nazi abuses, and continuing to believe after the Second World War that this would have been the right path.