Editing Otto Preminger (section)

==Early life==
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Preminger was born in 1905 in Wischnitz, [[Duchy of Bukovina|Bukovina]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (present-day [[Vyzhnytsia]], [[Ukraine]]), into a [[Ashkenazi Jew|Jewish]] family. His parents were Josefa (née Fraenkel) and Markus Preminger.<ref>Foster Hirsch, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cQOEiGn76iwC&pg=PT28 ''Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King''], Random House LLC, 2011.</ref> The couple provided a stable home life for Otto and his younger brother [[Ingo Preminger|Ingwald, known as "Ingo"]], later the producer of the original film version of [[MASH (film)|''M*A*S*H'']] (1970).<ref>{{cite book|last=Preminger|first=Otto|title=Preminger: an autobiography|publisher=Doubleday|year=1977|page=24|isbn=9780385034807|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mnZZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22My+father+believed+that+it+was+impossible+to+be+too+kind+or+too+loving+to+a+child.+He+never+punished+me.+When+there+were+problems+he+sat+down+and+discussed+them+with+me+.%22}}</ref>

After the assassination in 1914 of [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand]], which led to [[World War I|the Great War]], Russia entered the war on the Serbian side. Bukovina was invaded by the Russian Army and the Preminger family fled. His father secured a position as public prosecutor in [[Graz]], capital of [[Styria]]. When the Preminger family relocated, Otto was nearly nine and was enrolled in a school where instruction in [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] was mandatory and [[Jews|Jewish]] history and religion had no place on the [[syllabus]]. Ingo, not yet four, remained at home.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

After a year in Graz, Markus Preminger claims that he was summoned to [[Vienna]] and offered an eminent position (roughly equivalent to that of the [[United States Attorney General]]), but was told that the position would be his only if he converted to Catholicism, which he refused to do. The next year, he moved his family to [[Vienna]], where Otto later claimed to have been born.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

In 1928, Preminger earned a law degree from the [[University of Vienna]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Otto Preminger {{!}} Biography, Movies, Assessment, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Preminger |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>