David Rising
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/ 1 May 2006

‘He warned, where others remained silent’

Paul Spiegel, who fled the Nazis as a child during World War II and returned to Germany to eventually become the influential — and at times contentious — head of its main Jewish organisation, has died. He was 68. Spiegel died overnight of cancer in a hospital in Duesseldorf where he had been seriously ill for weeks.