I wonder if Max Krauser was ever beaten during the 1930s? Certainly there were many great heavyweights during that decade who would have given him a good run.
I believe to have seen a version of the Stanislawow and his debut claim in a German propgram, would be interested to know if they just copied that pr piece.
I did look into it as there are two instances of the towns name and I wanted to figure out which one it was. Made me find some Pro-German and Anti-Russian propaganda from (Jews for Jews) from World War 1 and I thought to myself it was basically a compilation of all the worst pogroms in Eastern Europe throughout the ages. It was brutally depressing...I think the claim was that it was a Lodz tournament, but the description of it was a very popular wrestling angle in it's day.
He met his wife in Vienna in 1937 during a tournament that was probably stopped because he was about to be the winner (so it's basically the Jim Wango situation but it escalated, Rudolf Zurths son was adamant that it was a natural death for Wango and no outside interference). They settled in a farm in Upstate New York
I am Max's granddaughter. Some of your info is incorrect. They settled in New Jersey and never lived upstate on a farm. The majority of the info below from another poster is correct though. We do have some of his records from old newspaper clippings but many we haven't been able to translate or are fragile at this point, unfortunately.
I believe to have seen a version of the Stanislawow and his debut claim in a German propgram, would be interested to know if they just copied that pr piece.
I did look into it as there are two instances of the towns name and I wanted to figure out which one it was. Made me find some Pro-German and Anti-Russian propaganda from (Jews for Jews) from World War 1 and I thought to myself it was basically a compilation of all the worst pogroms in Eastern Europe throughout the ages. It was brutally depressing... I think the claim was that it was a Lodz tournament, but the description of it was a very popular wrestling angle in it's day.
He met his wife in Vienna in 1937 during a tournament that was probably stopped because he was about to be the winner (so it's basically the Jim Wango situation but it escalated, Rudolf Zurths son was adamant that it was a natural death for Wango and no outside interference). They settled in a farm in Upstate New York