Colin Ross (writer)

Colin Ross (or Roß) (4 June 1885 - 29 April 1945[1]) was a renowned[2] and prolific[1] Austrian travel writer and film-maker.

[2] Born in Vienna, he served for one year in the Bavarian Field Artillery, after which he studied engineering in Berlin and economics and history in Munich and Heidelberg.

He continued working as a journalist during the First World War, and also served as a first lieutenant (Oberleutnant)[4] on the Russian front, where he was wounded.

[1] According to Baldur von Schirach, Ross proposed expelling all Jews from Hungary, and sending them to America.

[6]: 431 Ross was described by Ernst Wallenberg, a Jewish journalist, as a political opportunist, changing from democratic to communist to Nazi, and from pro-Jewish to antisemitic.

[2] After their Munich apartment was destroyed, Ross and his wife moved to a hut owned by Schirach[2] or his brother-in-law[1] in Urfeld am Walchensee.