Palmier Jean - Michel - Weimar In Exile The Antifascist Emigration In Europe And America - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In 1933 thousands of intellectuals artists writers militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were in the words of Heinrich Mann "the best of Germany " refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world they continued the fight against Nazism in prose poetry painting architecture film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland retracing their stories struggles setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin Ernst Bloch Bertolt Brecht Alfred D blin Hanns Eisler Heinrich Mann Thomas Mann Anna Seghers Ernst Toller Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.
Title: Weimar In Exile The Antifascist Emigration In Europe And America
Author(s): Palmier Jean - Michel
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784786441
Pages: 864 Pages
Publication Date: 1/31/2017
Category: Fascism & Nazism