"Few Europeans really had a sense of where Zagreb was located, Durieux later noted in her diary. 'People thought Zagreb was a suburb of Vienna or of Prague. Yugoslavia was somewhere 'down there,' in a part of the world no one could quite make sense of.'"
"At that time, Adolf Hitler had already seized full political control, with basic rights suspended, and Nazi terror unleashed. SA thugs roamed the street. Thousands were arrested, sent to concentration camps, tortured and murdered."
"Very few wanted to stay there long term,' German historian Marie-Janine Calic tells DW. Yugoslavia had ports on the Adriatic Sea from which it was possible to continue traveling onward."
In mid-1934, Tilla Durieux and her husband Ludwig Katzenellenbogen left Switzerland for Zagreb, Croatia, as their residence permit was not renewed. They had been fleeing Nazi Germany since March 31, 1933, when Hitler seized power and civil liberties were dismantled. Many Germans, particularly Jews and political dissidents, sought refuge abroad, primarily in western Europe or Palestine. While some stories of escape are well-documented, fewer accounts focus on those who found temporary refuge in Yugoslavia, which offered ports for further travel.
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