The Prisoner of Ottawa - Otto Strasser

Jonathan Cape, 1953

On April 29th, 1953, the correspondent of The Times reported from Bonn: `The administrative court of North Rhine-Westphalia, sitting at Cologne, today ruled that Dr. Otto Strasser, who organized the `black front' against Hitler and is at present living in Canada, was entitled to return to Germany.' This book tells for the first time the full story of the astonishing post-war life of Otto Strasser, the only leading German politician who actively fought Hitler, who had been arbitrarily banned from his homeland by the Allied governments and West German governments, acting in concert, since the war ended. While the first leader s of the Gestapo and the Brownshirts are both active and important in 1950s West Germany, Hitler's foremost adversary has been in effect outlawed in a remote Nova Scotian hamlet, condemned to struggle with penury...