the regime seized the opportunity to force a transfer of ownership. Lachmann-Mosse, however, received in Paris an invitation from Hermann Göring to continue as the Berliner Tageblatt business manager with the protective status of an Honorary Aryan (Ehrenarier). Lachmann-Mosse rejected the offer and never returned to Germany. His son Gerhard (George Mosse) suspects that Göring's motive was to wrest control of the network of foreign press agencies and offices that had remained in the family's possession. With his wife and children relocated to Switzerland, Lachmann-Mosse secured a divorce and married his mistress Karola Margarete Strauch (Bock). Following the German invasion of France in June 1941, he managed to emigrate via Portugal to the United States. Mosse-Lachmann died 17 April 1944 in Oakland, California where, as in Berlin, he had had the reputation of a generous patron of the arts. He was survived by his wife Karola Lachmann-Mosse (Strauch) (1898-1982), his ex-wife Felicia Lachmann-Mosse (1888-1972), and their children, the American pediatrician and child psychiatrist Hilde Mosse (1912-1982), Rudolf Lachmann-Mosse (1913-1958) and George Mosse (1918-1999), the prominent American historian of National Socialism. References 20th-century German newspaper publishers (people) Mosse family 1885 births 1944 deaths