Germany? Germany!

Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; one of the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter". His books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his country. But he is not forgotten.

Harry Zohn was born 1923 in Vienna. He survived as a Jew in Austria until 1939 when he emigrated to England and later to Boston. In 1969, he became Professor of German at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. He also was a prolific translator.

Ralph Blumenthal was a reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and has written four books based on investigative crime reporting. Most recently he had been on the metro staff. Currently, he teaches journalism at Baruch College of the City University in New York.