Walter Kreiser

Walter Kreiser (February 10, 1898 in Heilbronn - 1958 in Maringá, Brazil) was a German aircraft designer and journalist, best known for publishing an article in the magazine The World Stage in 1929, which exposed the secret creation of a secret German Air Force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, getting him convicted in 1931 of treason and esponage, receiving 18 months in prison (Weltbühne-Prozess)along with future (1935) Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl Ossietzky.

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