Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.

Nonetheless he considered travelling to Germany for the trial as at the time Ossietzky was already in prison because of the aviation article. "The German political murder of the past four years is schematically and tightly organised. There he experienced positional warfare and served as a munitions soldier and then as company writer.

He was simultaneously a satirist an author of satirical political revues a songwriter and a poet. His fears were confirmed when the Nazis came to power in 1933: his books were listed on the Nazi's censorship as "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") and burned and he lost his German citizenship. Kurt Tucholsky (January 9 1890 – December 21 1935) was a German-Jewish journalist satirist and writer.