Emigration
From 1936 until 1939 Deutsch fought as General of the Republican troops in the Spanish Civil War.
1939 he moved to Paris and worked for the foreign representation of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES). After the occupation of France by National Socialist Germany, Deutsch, who was Jewish, had to emigrate again, this time to the United States of America. He returned back to Austria in 1946. Deutsch was also the President of the Socialist Workers' Sport International.
Since 1951 Deutsch was married to Adrienne Thomas, a writer.
After his death, a Vienna apartment complex "Julius-Deutsch-Hof" was named in his honor.
Julius Deutsch was also an uncle of Karl Deutsch, a renowned German-American social and political scientist.
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