Weimar in Exile: The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and AmericaVerso, 17 juil. 2006 - 852 pages 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. |
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE ÉMIGRÉS IN WARTIME AMERICA | 17 |
Exile in Europe 193340 | 21 |
THE BEGINNINGS OF EMIGRATION | 49 |
THE STAGES OF EXILE IN EUROPE | 134 |
The Intellectual Mobilization | 203 |
EXILE AS EVERYDAY TRAGEDY | 227 |
THE ORGANIZATION OF SUPPORT | 267 |
ANTIFASCIST THEATRE IN EXILE | 410 |
THE ÉMIGRÉS AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR | 426 |
in 193839 | 433 |
Exile in America 193945 | 451 |
THE CONFRONTATION WITH NAZI GERMANY | 457 |
THE STRANGERS IN PARADISE | 499 |
ACADEMICS IN EXILE | 552 |
THE BREAKUP OF THE POLITICAL EMIGRATION | 559 |
FIRST REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF THE EMIGRATION | 281 |
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST NATIONAL SOCIALISM | 299 |
BIRTH AND DECLINE OF THE VOLKSFRONT | 331 |
PRESS PUBLISHING AND LITERATURE IN EXILE | 361 |
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