Weimar in Exile: The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America
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The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were the best of Germany. Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope. 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.
