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Ossietzky, Carl von

Ossietzky, Carl von

Ossietzky, Carl von fən ôsyĕt´skē [key], 1889–1938, German pacifist. A leader of the peace movement in Germany after World War I, he was editor of the antimilitarist weekly Weltbühne from 1927. Ossietzky was imprisoned (1932) for articles exposing secret rearmament in Germany. After Adolf Hitlers rise