ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1983, this study starts with an exploration of proto-Nazi literature in the early 20th Century and pursues later developments up to the arrival of fully-fledged National Socialism. Not only literature within Germany is covered; after 1933 republican writers forced into exile for racial as well as political reasons rejected the anti-Semitic ‘barbarism’ of National Socialism and developed a powerful brand of anti-fascist literature in countries around the world. This ‘exile’ literature is covered in depth, both for its outstanding individual figures like Brecht and Mann as well as for the general phenomenon of exile. Attention is particularly focused on those non-Nazis who remained in Germany as ‘inner émigrés’ forming a resistance literature. One area of resistance also highlighted in the book is the Spanish Civil War in which many writers fought.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part ONE|62 pages
1914-1933–GERMANY SLEEPS
chapter 1|18 pages
THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC'S SECRET GERMANY
chapter 2|25 pages
THE MAKING OF A PEOPLE
chapter 3|17 pages
WHEN I HEAR 'CULTURE' I REACH FOR MY REVOLVER
part TWO|96 pages
1933-1945–INSIDE GERMANY
chapter 4|29 pages
GERMANY AWAKENS
chapter 5|17 pages
NOVELS AND DRAMAS IN THE THIRD REICH
chapter 6|22 pages
INNER EMIGRATION
chapter 7|26 pages
RESISTANCE
part THREE|106 pages
1933-1945—OUTSIDE GERMANY
chapter 8|26 pages
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
chapter 9|28 pages
EXILE, THE FIRST PHASE
chapter 10|15 pages
EXILE, THE SECOND PHASE
chapter 11|22 pages
THEATRE IN EXILE
chapter 12|13 pages
LYRIC AND SONG IN EXILE
part FOUR|17 pages
1945 AND AFTER