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UA Ruhr Salon with authors of Otto John: Patriot or Traitor

BENJAMIN HETT & MICHAEL WALA on their new book OTTO JOHN: PATRIOT or TRAITOR moderated by CONSUL YASEMIN PAMUK University Alliance Ruhr: Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and University of Duisburg-Essen, the German Consulate General of Germany in New York, and the Hunter College Department of German, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of Otto John: Patriot or Traitor by Hunter College professor of history Benjamin Hett and professor of North American history at the Ruhr University Bochum Michael Wala. The authors will be in conversation with Consul Yasemin Pamuk from the German Consulate General New York. Welcome and closing notes by Priya S. Nayar, Executive Director of UA Ruhr. On July 20, 1954, the President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution disappeared from West Berlin and reappeared a few days later in East Berlin. 17 months later, Otto John returned to the West and was immediately arrested as a defector. A member of the German anti-Nazi resistance that had organized the failed assassination of Hitler ten years before, John had barely escaped the Gestapo in July 1944, he hid in Spain as well as in Portugal, and was eventually evacuated by British intelligence to support their anti-Nazi propaganda efforts, before returning to the Bundesrepublik in 1949. For decades it has remained unclear whether John went voluntarily to the GDR or, as he claimed, was kidnapped by Soviet intelligence. In Otto John: Patriot or Traitor, co-authors Hett and Wala shed new light on a man who was part of the resistance and who made a career in Germany in the post-war period. The book is an exciting spy thriller from the Cold War that also presents an historic milestone for the nascent German republic. Wednesday, July 20th at 6:00 PM Roosevelt House, 47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065