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Thyssen leaves Germany
In September 1939 Fritz Thyssen and his wife left Germany for Switzerland; Turner writes that the Vichy authorities later handed him back to the Nazis.
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- Sep 1939
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This account of the journey is from the 1941 book published under Thyssen’s name.
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- Sep 1939 Thyssen leaves Germany
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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985.
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He fled abroad, denounced the regime publicly, saw his property expropriated, and, when the Vichy authorities turned him over to the Nazis, found himself in one of the Third Reich’s concentration camps.
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I Paid Hitler, published under Fritz Thyssen's name (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1941); Thyssen denied writing it, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1941.
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On arriving at the turning which leads to the Brenner, we took the left instead of the right and drove on toward Italy and Switzerland.
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