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The Dark World of Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell’s Early Days
It’s rare for someone to rise from poverty to Roll-Royce and luxury yacht ownership without bending a few rules along the way.
Ján LudvĂk Hyman Binyamin Hoch was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. Most of his family was swept up in the Holocaust, but he managed to escape and made his way to Britain. He changed his name to Ivan du Maurier, joined the British Army, and took part in the invasion of Normandy.
After the war, he changed his name again, this time to Ian Robert Maxwell, and “he entered business, specializing in import and export between Britain and Eastern Europe where he established extensive connections” (Jewish Virtual Library). Then, says the Encyclopedia Britannica rather cryptically, “he managed to acquire control of a publishing company, which he renamed Pergamon Press Ltd. in 1951.”
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