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1894 – 1939Joseph Roth (1894-1939)Died 27 May 1939, aged 44Roth was an Austrian novelist and journalist who wrote Radetzky March about the decline of the Habsburg monarchy. He fled Germany in 1933. He died in poverty in Paris.