![]() ![]() Quite often, he was very funny, even when he was warning against Hitler.” When the Nazis placed a price on Kerr’s head, he joked that he felt insulted because the amount was too low. "He used to broadcast a lot on the radio, before they stopped him. "When I would go into his room, there were newspapers piled so high that I had to wade through," she said. "He would always speak out." Despite the very real risk to his life, he continued to criticize Hitler until his microphone was confiscated. "He always had a very strong sense of Jewish ethics,” Judith Kerr once said of her father. ![]() A formidable and influential voice in Berlin, Alfred Kerr had taken to publicly criticizing Hitler and knew his card was marked. Judith Kerr was nine years old when her father, a renowned literary and theater critic, made the decision to flee Germany in 1933. ![]()
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