Stephan Lux 1888 - 1936

Stephan Lux 1888 - 1936. On July 3, 1936, Stefan Lux, a Slovak Jewish journalist and poet, and a Czechoslovak citizen, entered the assembly hall of The League of Nations in Geneva, while it was in session, and shot himself. It later became clear, both because of statements that he made in the hours before he died, and from letters he left behind, that Lux had decided to kill himself in order to call attention to the criminal and morally insane regime then in power in Germany. The fol...