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Michael Davidson


Born
January 01, 1897

Died
January 01, 1976

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Born into an upper-middle-class family in Guernsey and educated at Lancing, Davidson joined the army in 1914. Being wounded in 1916, he became a newspaper reporter and a supporter of the Communist Party. He translated a number of anti-Nazi books. After having lived in Berlin in early to mid 1930s, he wrote newspaper articles to warn England against the full implications of Hitler's ideology, which he had seen up-close, but editors showed little interest. After being harassed by the SA for being British, a communist, and presumably a homosexual, Davidson fled Germany. He spent the rest of his life serving as a foreign correspondent for, among other newspapers, The Observer, The News Chronicle and The New York Times.

At age 26, Davidson met W.
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