Weimar in Exile Palmier Jean- Michel
Weimar in Exile Palmier Jean- Michel A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to powerIn 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and…
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Weimar in Exile Palmier Jean- Michel
A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to powerIn 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. 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 Doblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to 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.