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Building Suicide Walter Benjamin

In this building (the former Hotel de Francia) in Portbou at the French-Spanish border, Walter Benjamin ended his own life on 27 September 1940. It is believed he did this because he was about to be sent to the Gestapo. He was a well-known philosopher and writer. Because he was Jewish, he fled from Germany to France in 1933.

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