[1] As a child, he lived with his family in Munich near the private residence of Adolf Hitler on Grillparzer Strasse.
Feuchtwanger was 14 when the Gestapo arrested his father on 10 November 1938, part of the coordinated pogrom known as Kristallnacht, which included the detentions of 30,000 Jews in Germany and Austria, the deaths of 91, and the widespread ransacking of Jewish-owned stores and synagogues.
They dismissed Palestine and Prague[5] and ultimately managed to obtain entry visas to Britain, and in February 1939, Edgar boarded a train bound for London.
[9] Feuchtwanger has also published an autobiography describing his experiences during the "Third Reich" and the post-war years, entitled I Was Hitler's Neighbour,[10] in 2015.
Feuchtwanger was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to Anglo-German understanding and history.