Weimar in Exile
The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America
Published on 31. January 2017
864 pages
978-1-78478-645-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-645-8 (9781784786458)
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Persons
Jean-Michel Palmier was Professor of Aesthetics at Universit¿ Paris I, specializing in German artistic movements of the 1920s and 30s. Weimar in Exile was awarded the Prix Eug¿ne Piccard for a work of modern history by the Acad¿mie Fran¿aise.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Exile in Europe 1933-40: From Reichstag Fire to Spanish War
- 1. Assassination of a Culture
- 2. The Beginnings of Emigration
- 1. Intellectuals' Attitudes towards National Socialism
- 2. The Decision to Emigrate
- 3. Structural Features of the Anti-Nazi Emigration
- 3. The Stages of Exile in Europe
- 1. Exile in Czechoslovakia
- 2. Exile in Austria
- 3. Exile in the Netherlands
- 4. Exile in Britain
- 5. Exile in Switzerland
- 6. Exile in Spain
- 7. Exile in Scandinavia
- 8. Exile in the USSR
- 9. Exile in France
- 10. Exile Outside Europe: China, Turkey, Palestine
- 4. Exile as Everyday Tragedy
- 1. Legal Problems of the Émigré Situation
- 2. The Economic Survival of the Émigrés
- 3. Psychological Effects
- 5. The Organization of Support
- 6. First Reflections on the Meaning of the Emigration
- 7. The Struggle against National Socialism
- 1. Support for the German Resistance
- 2. The Successes of Anti-Nazi Propaganda in Exile
- 3. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
- 8. Birth and Decline of the Volksfront
- 1. The Writers' Congresses for the Defence of Culture
- 2. Building the Antifascist Popular Front
- 3. The Involvement of Émigrés in the Spanish War
- 9. Press, Publishing and Literature in Exile
- 1. Émigré Periodicals
- 2. The Foundation of New Publishing Houses
- 3. Arguments about 'Exile Literature'
- 10. Antifascist Theatre in Exile
- 11. The Émigrés and the Second World War
- 1. The War against the Émigrés
- 2. The Hardening of European Policy in 1938-39
- 3. Last Efforts to Escape from Europe
- Part Two: Exile in America 1939-45: From the Second World War to McCarthyism
- Preface to Part Two: The Acceptance of Defeat
- 12. The Confrontation with Nazi Germany
- 1. US Foreign Policy and the Third Reich
- 2. The United States and the Refugee Question
- 3. The First Waves of Émigrés
- 4. Life in America
- 13. Weimar in America: The Strangers in Paradise
- 1. Artistic Creation in America
- 2. The Integration of Émigrés into American Cultural Life
- 3. Press, Literature and Publishing
- 14. Academics in Exile
- 15. The Breakup of the Political Emigration
- 16. Emigration in Latin America
- 17. The Émigrés in Wartime America
- 1. America's Entry into War
- 2. The Intellectual Mobilization
- 3. Hollywood at War
- 18. Perspectives on Germany
- 19. The Antifascist Émigrés and the Beginnings of McCarthyism
- Epilogue: Cassandra
- Notes
- Index
