Editing Philipp Scheidemann (section)

=== Life in exile ===
After the [[National Socialists|Nazis]] seized power on 30 January 1933, Scheidemann, whom the far right had for years denounced as a leading [[November criminal]], was in grave danger. A few days after the [[Reichstag fire]] on 27 February 1933, he fled to [[Salzburg]], Austria, where Austrian National Council member Josef Witternigg took him in. Scheidemann's extensive records of his political activity, including 26 volumes of diary notes from 1914 to 1919, remained behind in Germany, where they were confiscated by the political police. They are now considered to have been lost.

[[File:Grab von Philipp Scheidemann.jpg|left|thumb|Philipp Scheidemann's grave|222x222px]]
After stays in Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, France and the United States, Scheidemann arrived in Denmark in 1935. The German Reich's first expatriation list, published on 25 August 1933, deprived him of his German citizenship.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hepp |first=Michael |title=Die Ausbürgerung deutscher Staatsangehöriger 1933–45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veröffentlichten Listen, Band 1: Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge |publisher=De Gruyter Saur |year=1985 |isbn=978-3-11-095062-5 |location=Munich |pages=3 |language=de |trans-title=The Expatriation of German Nationals 1933–45 According to Lists Published in the Reichsanzeiger, Volume 1: Lists in Chronological Order}}</ref> Although his health was deteriorating, he observed the developments in Germany closely and published articles in the Danish working-class press under a pseudonym.

Philipp Scheidemann died in Copenhagen on 29 November 1939. In 1953 the city of Copenhagen had his ashes transferred to Kassel. His grave is located in the old section of Kassel's main cemetery and is preserved as a grave of honor by the city. Scheidemann's own wish had been to be buried in Berlin alongside his wife Johanna, who died in August 1926.