Hermann and Otto Kantorowicz fled the National Socialists to England in 1933 and continued their academic careers in exile.
After his sensational finds on the Kybfelsen, Otto Kantorowicz, who was born in Berlin in 1906 and grew up in Freiburg, continued to look at castle ruins in the region. So he soon explored the ruins of the Etzenbacher Höhe castle near Staufen, where he found parallels to the Kyburg. Kantorowicz then wrote another article on his findings for the magazine “Schau-Ins-Land”, the annual issue of the Breisgau history association.
Publication was planned for 1931, but it was delayed and was off the table when the National Socialists came to power in 1933: Kantorowicz’s family used to belong to the Jewish religious community and thus he was apparently …
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