Prof. Siegfried (Kurt) Baschwitz

See https://ascor.uva.nl/about-ascor/history/history.html for links to a downloadable book Kurt Baschwitz : A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology by Jaap van Ginneken, and the author's notes and source documents.

• Book can be downloaded here: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1004090 http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn4/baschwi https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25991/97890...

&: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Baschwitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Baschwitz Excerpt:

Siegfried Kurt Baschwitz (February 2, 1886, Offenburg – January 6, 1968 Amsterdam), was a journalist, a professor of press, propaganda and public opinion, scholar on newspapers, and crowd psychology.
Baschwitz, who, as was customary in German middle class, was known by his second name Kurt, was a German Jew and a friend of Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank. Baschwitz was called upon as an expert to advise on the publication of the Diary of Anne Frank [1] and later again authenticate it.