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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Palmier, Jean Michel, 1944- Weimar in exile. London ; New York : Verso, ©2006 (OCoLC)607773105 Online version: Palmier, Jean Michel, 1944- Weimar in exile. London ; New York : Verso, ©2006 (OCoLC)607856948 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Michel Palmier |
ISBN: | 1844670686 9781844670680 9781784786441 1784786446 |
OCLC Number: | 67873310 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Description: | xi, 852 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Exile in Europe 1933-40: from Reichstag fire to Spanish War -- pt. 2. Exile in America 1939-45: from the Second World War to McCarthyism. |
Other Titles: | Weimar en exil. |
Responsibility: | Jean-Michel Palmier ; translated by David Fernbach. |
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Abstract:
In 1933, thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. This book follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to the return to their ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories.
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A monumental work. * Le Monde * Jean-Michel Palmier published books on Georg Trakl, Hegel, Lenin, Lacan and Marcuse, as well as studies on German expressionism and a great work on the fate of anti-Nazi intellectuals, Weimar in Exile, celebrated by the Academie francaise. Everything fascinated him. He was a scholar who anxiously, almost mystically, quested after knowledge, and reminded one of a medieval philosopher even more than of a Renaissance man of letters. He was obsessed with art and culture. He was a surveyor of the past who tracked its faintest traces. * Le Monde Diplomatique * Read more...

