Rainer Marwedel was twenty when he first read texts by Theodor Lessing, who was murdered by the Nazis in 1933. To this day, the editor is working on the writer – even if he is impoverished by it.
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Willi Winkler, Hanover
The ladder was seven meters long, and the two murderers needed more helpers to drag them from the fire station in Schanz four and a half kilometers along the edge of the forest to Marienbad. It extended to the second floor of “Villa Edelweiß” and was placed between the two windows of the study. When Theodor Lessing came in to continue writing his last article, the men outside the window fired two shots, each “absolutely fatal,” according to the autopsy report.