Weimar in exile
Subtitle: the antifascist emigration in Europe and America
By: Jean-Michel Palmier ; translated by David Fernbach.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9781844670680
Subjects: Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Exiles -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Germans -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.; Germans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- History.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.; Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945.
Work titles: Weimar en exil.
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. They emigrated to Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, Oslo, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Mexico, Jerusalem, Moscow. Throughout their exile they strove to give expression to the fight against Nazism through their work, in prose, poetry and painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to the return to their ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. This absorbing history covers the lives of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Doblin, Hans Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others, whose dignity in exile is a moving counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [661]-828) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Exile in Europe 1933-40: from Reichstag fire to Spanish War; title: Pt. 2. Exile in America 1939-45: from the Second World War to McCarthyism.