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Walter Kempner (1903–1997) and his rice diet
Walter Kempner, the doctor with the thick German accent who came to America to escape from the Nazis, was born in 1903. Son of two bacteriologists who had both worked on tuberculosis, he graduated in medicine from the University of Heidelberg in 1928 and subsequently worked there and in Berlin. When the anti-Jewish laws were…