Rudolf Olden
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Rudolf Olden (Szczecin, January 14, 1885 - Atlantic Ocean, September 18, 1940) was a German lawyer he was a well known voice in the political debate, a vocal opponent of the Nazis, a fierce advocate of human rights and one of the first to alert the world to the treatment of Jews by the Nazis in 1934. He is the author of Hitler der Eroberer. Entlarvung einer Legende ("Hitler the Conqueror, Debunking of a Myth") which is considered part of the German exile literature. The book was promptly banned by the Nazis. Shortly after its publication by Querido in Amsterdam, Olden's citizenship was revoked and he emigrated, together with his wife, to the United States. On September 18 both died in the U-boat attack on the SS City of Benares in the Atlantic.
He founded a magazine (Er und Sie, "Him and Her"), dedicated to Lebenskultur und Erotik, which was soon at the center of a heated debate about public morals and common decency.
