By Any Means Necessary
Marseille is the 2013 European Capital of Culture – time to recall the heroics of Varian Fry, a US citizen who lived there during the Second World War. Markus Bauer reports.
In June 1935 a young American strolled along the streets of Berlin. His name was Varian Fry. As a writer on foreign policy he wanted to explore the changes in Germany under Hitler. Fry experienced the social climate very directly: on the Kurfürstendamm he witnessed a mob of stormtroopers brutally assault a Jew. Infuriated, Fry published an article about the incident in the New York Times.
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