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Robert Maxwell, in full Ian Robert Maxwell, original name Jan Ludvik Hoch, (born June 10, 1923, Slatina-Selo, Czechoslovakia died November 5, 1991, at sea off the Canary Islands), Czechoslovak-born British publisher who built an international communications empire. His financial risks led him into grand fraud and an apparent suicide. Virtually all of the young Hoch’s Jewish family living in Czechoslovakia and Budapest died in the Nazi Holocaust, but he was able to make his way first to France and then to Britain, where he became a British army officer and participated in the Normandy invasion. (At this time he changed his

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