A GIFT FROM HITLER
A RECENT photograph, taken by himself, of Richard Schacherl, who has just concluded an interesting series of natural history talks in the Education Session.
ss Mr. Schacherl is one of Hitler’s gifts to New Zealand. He was born in 1893, in Graz, Austria, and worked for more than 26 years as a teacher, the last 11 years of this time teaching natural history (biology and hygiene), drawing, lettering, art education, and handicrafts for boys. For more than 11 years he was Director and Lecturer at the Evening Schools (People’s University) in Graz. Then he worked at the Institute for Marine Biology in Rovigno (Istria). When Hitler conquered Austria in March, 1938, he was removed from his post and in November, 1938, was arrested by the Gestapo, and taken to Germany to the notorious concentration camp at Dachau. He was among the few thousands who were released, after three months, as the result of the protests from England and America which then aroused the world. By the help of two English women then unknown to him, he escaped to England in 1939 and then came to New Zealand. He worked here for over three and a-half years as gardener, kitchen-helper, factory worker, cabinetmaker, before he secured a position as teacher of arts and crafts.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 11
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217A GIFT FROM HITLER New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 11
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