"One death is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand is a statistic"

WHO SAID: "ONE DEATH IS A CATASTROPHE. A HUNDRED THOUSAND DEATHS IS A STATISTIC" ? Often attributed to Stalin, this quotation was actually popularized by a famous German: Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), a writer, critic and journalist, a satirical and committed spirit, with an immense culture, a great observer of society and defender of democracy, at the time of the Weimar Republic. Funnier: this sentence is supposed to embody French humour. Under the pseudonym Peter Panter, Tucholsky published an article on French humour (Französischer Witz) in the Vossische Zeitung newspaper on 23 August 1925, in...