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Max Georg Brausewetter
1867–1916
A doctor by profession and a writer by circumstance, he left behind a stark firsthand account of captivity during the First World War. His best-known book turns personal suffering into a vivid historical record.
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J'accuse (Ich klage an): Zwei Jahre in französischer Gefangenschaft
by Max Georg Brausewetter
About the author
Born in Stettin in 1867, Max Georg Brausewetter was a German physician and writer. He later lived and worked as a doctor in Málaga, and his life combined medicine, military service, and literary work.
He is best known for J'accuse (Ich klage an): Zwei Jahre in französischer Gefangenschaft, a work published after his death in 1918. The book draws on his diary-like account of being interned in France during the First World War, describing his imprisonment and the strain of long captivity.
Brausewetter died in 1916 while still in French captivity. Though not widely known today, his writing survives as a personal witness to wartime detention and as part of the literary record of World War I.