Weimar in exile : the antifascist emigration in Europe and America / / Jean-Michel Palmier ; translated by David Fernbach

• Autore: Palmier Jean-Michel <1944-1998, >
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Verso, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (778 pages)
• Disciplina: 325.210943
• Soggetto topico: Political refugees - Germany - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1918-1933; Germany Emigration and immigration History 1933-1945
• Persona (resp. second.): FernbachDavid
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Provides a history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power. In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany, refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they expressed the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Palmier follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to the return to their ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Doblin, Hans Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis. --From publisher description.
• Titolo autorizzato: Weimar in exile
• ISBN: 1-78478-645-4; 1-78478-646-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910158999703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II