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First Letters After Exile by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, and Others

Detlef Garz editor David Kettler editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:10th Mar '21

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Insights into the post-war correspondence between noted exiles from Hitler’s Germany and colleagues and friends who remained in Germany

The book contains a number of studies focused on the post-war correspondence between noted exiles from Hitler’s Germany and colleagues and friends who remained in Germany. These materials provide unique insights into the reshaping of relations among the correspondents, which figure decisively in decisions of exiles on questions of return.

In the study of the National Socialist State and its aftermath, two unusual aspects continue to occupy historians and social science commentators. First, a factor important enough to enter into the very definition of totalitarianism is the thoroughgoing mobilization, coercive if needed, of the population of writers, teachers, professors journalists and other intellectual workers, securing cooperation – or at the least passive concurrence – in the mass-inculcation of the population in the destructive Fascist ideology. Second is the central place of dissident members of these populations in the exile. Since webs of communications with others, the majority of whom had remained in Germany, had constituted their own memberships in the populations at issue, the question of their roles in the post-war era depended importantly on the ways and means by which they restored – or refused to restore – communications with those who had remained.

ISBN: 9781785276712

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 26mm

Weight: 454g

248 pages