Richard Hurowitz is an investor, writer and the publisher of The Octavian Report, a magazine of ideas focused on foreign policy, business and culture and the host of the Octavian Forum, a yearly conference. Follow him on Twitter at @RichardHurowitz
On World Circus Day, it's worth honoring Adolf Althoff and his dangerous and little known quest to save Jewish colleagues from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.
Under the seat of the bikes he rode to two Tour de France titles, one humble superstar quietly carried the papers that spared hundreds from the Holocaust.
In a time of ‘just following orders,’ one diplomat disobeyed the rules and saved thousands of Jewish refugees because ‘they were human beings and needed help.’
