{"id":578,"date":"2020-09-04T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2020-10-03T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:43:19","slug":"12-gerald-reitlinger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/the-brunner-family-an-estate\/12-gerald-reitlinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Reitlinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1004\" class=\"wp-image-164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033-1024x1004.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033-1024x1004.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033-300x294.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033-768x753.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033-1536x1506.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033-640x628.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Buecher_Reitlinger_200311JM-Brunner033.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">German editions of Gerald Reitlinger\u2019s books: <em>The Final Solution. The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939\u20131945<\/em>, turned into <em>Endl\u00f6sung. Hitlers Versuch der Ausrottung der Juden Europas 1939-1945<\/em>, Berlin 1956) \/\u00a0<em>The SS-Alibi of a Nation,<\/em>\u00a0turned into: <em>Die SS. Trag\u00f6die einer deutschen Epoche<\/em>, Munich 1957 \/\u00a0<em>The House built on Sand, the conflicts of German policy in Russia<\/em>, turned into <em>Ein Haus, auf Sand gebaut. Hitlers Gewaltpolitik in Russland 1941,<\/em> Hamburg 1962.\u00a0Jewish Museum Hohenems<\/span><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Following their enormous social ascent in Trieste, Carlo Brunner and his wife Caroline, n\u00e9e Rosenthal, married their three daughters to three Reitlinger brothers, bankers in Vienna, London, and Paris. Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1978) was born as the youngest son of Albert Reitlinger and Emma Reitlinger, n\u00e9e Brunner, and pursued cultural studies and art. From 1930 until 1931, he participated in an excavation in Iraq and subsequently undertook several research trips to Iran, Turkey, and China. After World War II, Gerald Reitlinger published the first complete overview of the National Socialist mass murder of the European Jews: <em>The Final Solution. The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939\u20131945<\/em> appeared in 1953 in London. In 1956 followed<em> The SS. Alibi of a Nation 1922 &#8211; 1945<\/em>. Gerald Reitlinger was an enthusiastic collector of Asian and Islamic ceramics. He bequeathed his large collection, which was damaged by fire shortly before his death, to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where it now forms the Gerald Reitlinger Gallery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\">\r\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-578-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_Gerald_Reitlinger_Final_Solution_E.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_Gerald_Reitlinger_Final_Solution_E.mp3\">http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_Gerald_Reitlinger_Final_Solution_E.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\r\n<figcaption>Gerald Reitlinger, The Final Solution, 1953. Questions of Responsibility<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following their enormous social ascent in Trieste, Carlo Brunner and his wife Caroline, n\u00e9e Rosenthal, married their three daughters to three Reitlinger brothers, bankers in Vienna, London, and Paris. Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1978) was born as the youngest son of Albert Reitlinger and Emma Reitlinger, n\u00e9e Brunner, and pursued cultural studies and art. From 1930 until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":611,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[50,51,44,78,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions\/747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}