Halberstadt was German National Champion in epee in 1922 and 1930. After the
Nazis came to power, after
Kristallnacht his family's business was seized by the Nazis and Halberstadt was interned in
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the Nazis because he was Jewish. He then fled Germany at the age of 56 with what he could carry, first to
London, and then
San Francisco in 1940. Halberstadt was inducted into the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame, in its Class of 2013. ==See also==