Hanns-Erich Kaminski, author of the famous chronicleEls de Barcelona (on the beginnings of the Civil War in the Catalan capital, published in Paris in 1937 and now recovered by Adesiara with translation by Francesc Parcerisas and with a prologue by Aurora Madaula), was born in 1899 in Germany. He studied economics, philosophy and literature at the universities of Königsberg, Freiburg, Berlin and Frankfurt, until he enrolled in 1921 at Heidelberg and obtained his doctorate in 1922 with a thesis on dumping.