LEAFLET WRITER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1940, Page 6

LEAFLET WRITER

AUTHOR OF “JEW SUSS.” ESCAPE FROM INTERNMENT. Leon Feuchtwanger, author of "Jew Suss.” wrote the leaflets which the R.A.F. dropped over Germany in the war's early days, according to the “Daily Herald.” He ■ revealed this before leaving Lisbon for New York after escaping from a French concentration camp. "I was interned in France for a few days soon after war broke out.’ he told Associated Press. “Some British Cabinet Ministers tried to help me out' of France. Their requests met with no success. “On May 20 I and many others were interned in. a concentration camp. My wife was taken to a camp in the Pyrenees. “We expected the Germans to march into the camp at any minute—and 42 of us had already boon sentenced to death by Hitler.

“The camp commander said we would be moved when he could get a train.

"One night, the German dramatist. Hascn Clewer. said just before retiring: ‘Leon. I want to talk to you.’ "But when I went to his sleeping quarters he was asleep. He had taken enough veronal to give him eternal sleep. “Next morning our train arrived. There were 2800 of us piled up in 40 coaches. We reached Nimes and were interned again. "I planned escape with some friends, and with the help of some Americans we did it. I spent some time hidden in the home of an American friend. "Then I was smuggled over the Pyrenees into Spain, and managed to reach Portugal. "In America I hope to have my wile joining me very soon.