The remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann

A Jew in Nazi Germany, a ‘Dunera Boy’, a communist in Robert Menzies’ Australia, an Australian in East Germany; Kaufmann has died in Berlin at the age of 97

Writer was one of the last of the ‘Dunera Boys’ (Sydney Morning Herald)
A Jew in Nazi Germany, an enemy alien in wartime England, a communist in Robert Menzies’ Australia, an Australian in the German Democratic Republic, and somebody with a GDR identity in reunified Germany: throughout his life, the writer Walter Kaufmann, who died in Berlin on April 15, did not belong.

Photo: Walter Kaufmann in his apartment in Berlin in 1999. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck)
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