PLANT, Richard, & Oskar Seidlin.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

S.O.S. Geneva. First edition of this story centred on themes of international friendship and peace, written by two gay Jewish writers who fled Nazi Germany in the early 1930s. The translation was the work of the Jewish American Ralph Manheim, who translated Hitler's Mein Kampf into English a few years later.The authors were born in Germany and changed their names after emigrating. Following a period in Switzerland, they settled in the US, pursuing careers in academia. A few months after the release of this English-language edition, S.O.S. Geneva was published in Zurich in the original German (under the title S.O.S. Genf).

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