AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE Reminisciences and Reflections One Man Odyssey through Nazis and Hollywood Book 1 eBook Paul Kuttner
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Containing over 50 historic photographs from the author's private files.
FROM THE HARDCOVER DUSTJACKET of AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE
"Paul Kuttner's life can only be described as an accumulation of sky-high adventurous summits and, on the other side of the human scale, an endless row of diabolically hard times. How many people today can claim to have met with Hitler and Goring, the confront the Gestapo in Berlin and Hamburg as a teenager? Escaping shortly before World War II from Nazi Germany to England, Kuttner proved to be the only person in Britain on D-Day to be arrested in London as a suspected Nazi spy. Nevertheless, not all was lost. Next, his experiences in Hollywood are not the usual rags-to-riches episodes found in other biographies, but a series of incredible stories involving his 1948 meetings with Tracy and Turner, March and Laughton, as well as his tantrum unleashed on Columbia Studio s feared boss Harry Cohn. His many loves and failed marriages, his cancer, and reportorial work are discussed on these pages all with an honesty and lack of embarrassment rarely encountered in modern autobiographies. In some of the final chapters, Kuttner makes no bones about his fury directed at those who have devoted their lives to the kind of hatred and prejudice that plagued the author throughout most of his own youth. While there are passionate love, hurt, anger, and melodrama in his life story, these pages also display humor, criticism, of himself and others, as well as puzzlement at the overt and hidden psyches of the famous and unknown people Kuttner has had the good fortune to meet in movie studios, cemeteries, offices, prisons, and hospitals since the 1920s."
Excerpt from the opening chapter of AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE
"One day, in July 1933, while I was watching an indoor movie scene being shot at Ufa with actress Marianne Hoppe, a thunderous banging of fists on the huge sliding steel doors outside completely destroyed the filming of the scene. The performers and director cursed the person responsible for this calamity since a flashing red light outside each sound-stage building always indicated that a scene was being shot indoors.
A stagehand opened the sliding doors and a second later about two dozen of the tallest SS men came storming into the studio and formed a gangway by facing each other, arms linked akimbo. Even at this early stage of the Nazi regime, the SS was feared by everybody. The angry muttering inside the studio had died down completely as everybody, puzzled and frightened, stared at the blinding sunlit summer scene outside. That’s when it dawned on us what was happening a smiling Adolf Hitler, in a light-colored raincoat, came sauntering into the studio, and the movie director immediately rushed forward to welcome him.
I was scared out of my wits and looked for my father in order to join him. I saw him standing behind one of the SS bodyguards (Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler) on the opposite side of the free passage prepared for Hitler. Unthinking and immature, I ducked under the joined arms of two of the SS men and raced across the “corridor” provided by the black-uniformed giants for their Führer.
What I had not bargained for were the innumerable movie-camera cables snaking all over the floor. Halfway across the path made for Hitler, I tripped over one of these cables and fell flat on my face about five yards from the Nazi dictator. Realizing that the movie cameras were focusing on him, he took this golden opportunity to rush forward and help me up off the floor. I rose and apologized. Hitler, conscious of the propaganda value of displaying to the world how much he liked children, stooped and impulsively hugged me for a few moments (the only occasion he was ever caught embracing a person in public)..."
AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE Reminisciences and Reflections One Man Odyssey through Nazis and Hollywood Book 1 eBook Paul Kuttner
An incredible perspective of Nazi Germany and 20th Century America. This memoir proves that the little moments in life are worth remembering for an uncertain tomorrow. This book is worth the read!Product details
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AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE Reminisciences and Reflections One Man Odyssey through Nazis and Hollywood Book 1 eBook Paul Kuttner Reviews
Reading Paul Kuttner's powerful account I experienced the Kindertransport through his eyes. I met a caleidoscope of famous people from Hitler to Fritz Lang and many others in the most intimate situations. Kuttner not only lived through it, his story of survival takes you there.
A harrowing, poignant, and sometimes funny memoir of the author's amazing life. Reads like historical fiction but it's all TRUE. Entertaining, informative, and suspenseful. I read the sample chapter and was hooked. and immediately bought the book.
Paul Kuttner invites the reader to accompany him on a journey, from the seismic events of his youth in pre-war Berlin to the present day in New York. Along the way we meet the colourful characters that have shaped and influenced his life each intimacy, anecdote and encounter (some with the big names of the film industry) forming pieces of a mosaic that this fascinating autobiography portrays.
Memoirs of "An Endless Struggle" by Paul Kuttner--Published by Vantage Press Inc.
The author speaks from first-hand experience in Germany of the persecution meted out to the Jewish people under the Nazi regime during the 1930's and 40's. Many refugees and survivors of these well-documented shocking events have written and published their personal experiences. However, with his colourful anecdotes and wry humour, Paul Kuttner's memoirs are quite unique and will make you laugh and weep in turn. This is an admirable book and this reader was moved and glad to have read it.
Last month I finished reading Paul Kuttner's mammoth 2010 published autobiography "An Endless Struggle Reminiscences and Reflections" and cannot help feeling enthusiastic about it. Perhaps other readers feel the same way about it. Please let me know. Here are some excerpts Pg 4- That's when it dawned on us what was happening a smiling Adolf Hitler, in a light colored raincoat, came sauntering into the studio, and the movie director immediately rushed forward to greet him.
I was scared out of my wits and frantically looked for my father in order to join him. I saw him standing behind one of the SS bodyguards (Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler) on the opposite side of the free passage prepared for Hitler. Unthinking and immature, I ducked under the joined arms of two of the SS men and raced across the "corridor", provided by the black-uniformed giants for their Fuhrer to reach my father.
What I had not bargained for were the innumerable movie camera cables snaking all over the floor. Halfway across the path prepared for Hitler, the misfortune happened I tripped over one of the cables and fell flat on my face about five yards from the Nazi dictator.
An incredible perspective of Nazi Germany and 20th Century America. This memoir proves that the little moments in life are worth remembering for an uncertain tomorrow. This book is worth the read!
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