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Paul Kuttner in a youth Hostel in Evesham, Worcestershire with other refugee boys from Nazi Germany. Here all of us were taught carpentry. >From left to right: Rafael Buchbinder, Peter Reitsner, Paul Kuttner, Walter Flandrak, and Joachim Stein. This picture was taken in the late fall of 1940 when we were 17 and 18 years old and most of us had just been released from our internment by the British government. A few days after this picture was taken, we witnessed the Nazi airraid on Coventry nearby.

Paul Kuttner interviews British musical-comedy start and Hollywood actress Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952) at MGM in 1948 for a British newspaper (The London News Chronicle) and a show-business magazine (What's On in London - The London Week). She was the original Broadway star of "The King and I" and the musical "Lady in the Dark" and of most of the Noel Coward comedies, some of which he specially wrote for her, like "Private Lives" and "Susan and God." She was so famous that she is one of the very few starts to have her own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Her death came quite sudden; a few months after she started to play the role of Anna opposite Yul Brynner in "The King and I."

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Paul Kuttner in Berlin at the age of 8, in the summer of 1931.