During the Weimar Republic , Schottlaender was a private scholar . With his translation of the first part of '' A la recherche du temps perdu '' , which was published by '' Verlag Die Schmiede '' under the title of '' Der Weg zu Swann '' , he was the first German translator of Marcel Proust . He survived the Nazi regime and the persecution of the Jews , hiding in Berlin
persecution of the Jews
The Holocaust
Rudolf Schottlaender