 Breslau BoyChapter 1 in Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country, 2017, pp 3-15 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Breslau boy was originally named Werner Max Cohn. After we arrived in Australia in 1939, my name was changed to Warner Max Corden (or just W M Corden on the title pages of my books), and that was the name under which I later became known as an economist. Breslau was the capital of Silesia, which was a province of Germany when I was born there in 1927. My grandfather, Louis Cohn, had immigrated there from another German province Posen. In Breslau, he had founded the family firm Trautner. Later, Rudolf Cohn, my father, the youngest son of Louis, became the manager of this firm. The coming of Nazi rule led to Rudolf losing his job and prospects deteriorating for Jews in Germany. This then led to Werner—and earlier my brother Gerhart—being sent to school in England. This required visas and financial support, which were arranged by Aunt Elli, who lived at that time in England. While Gerhart and I were in England, my father was picked up by the Gestapo in Breslau as part of the Kristallnacht campaign and taken to Buchenwald, the concentration camp. This chapter describes my life in Germany under the Nazi regime, including one memorable episode when I, aged, nine, sneaked from home to join a crowd to see Hitler in the Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse. Date: 2017 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-319-65166-8_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65166-8_1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought from Palgrave Macmillan |
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