Hitler's Exiles

by Anderson, Mark M.

• ISBN13: 9781565845916
• ISBN10: 1565845919
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

A 1998 Los Angeles Times Book of the Year: the "vivid and moving" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) composite portrait of the historic migration of German-speaking refugees from Hitler. Hitler's Exiles is at once a moving human document and a new classic of the literature of exile. Hailed by David Rieff as "fascinating, important, and heart-rending," Hitler's Exiles features nearly fifty first-person accounts of the flight from Hitler's Germany to America, many published for the first time. From forgotten archives and obscure published sources, Hitler's Exiles recaptures the unknown voices of that perilous time by focusing on the ordinary people who underwent a most extraordinary voyage. Anderson also includes little-known writings by such major figures as Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. A new preface written for this paperback edition discusses the outpouring of emotion and memory the book has generated, and includes several moving letters from relatives of those in the book.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1
Chronology of Events	9	(10)
Part I: Leaving Home
Introduction	19	(6)
``The Reichstag is burning...''
The Reichstag Is Burning	25	(3)
Alfred Doblin
Berlin, 1933	28	(7)
Kate Frankenthal
An Open Letter to Herr Goebbels	35	(4)
Ernst Toller
Lives Transformed
A Farmer from South Germany	39	(8)
Anonymous
From the Eyes of a Mother	47	(12)
Marta Appel
Underground	59	(4)
Anonymous
The 1936 Berlin Olympics	63	(6)
Peter Gay
The Night of Broken Glass
A Doctor's View	69	(9)
Hertha Nathorff
From the Eyes of a Child	78	(5)
Annemarie Wolfram
To the West Station	83	(16)
Anonymous
Vienna
Heightening Persecution
The Trial of a Shipping Magnate	99	(9)
Arnold Bernstein
An Invitation from the Gestapo	108	(8)
Alice Solomon
Waiting	116	(19)
Elisabeth Freund
Part II: Passage
Introduction	129	(6)
Flight
Letter to Ernst toller	135	(2)
Hermann Kesten
Paris-Switzerland-Prague	137	(9)
Kate Frankenthal
Amsterdam-Paris	146	(5)
Marta Appel
Verona-Brussels	151	(3)
Hilda Branch
On Varian Fry	154	(3)
Hans Sahl
Fleeing through Occupied France	157	(12)
Ellen Schoenheimer
On the Meaning of Exile
The Grandeur and Miserty of Exile	169	(4)
Lion Feuchtwanger
Resisting America	173	(4)
Ludwig Marcuse
An ordinary Day in the Life of an Emigrant	177	(8)
Alfred Kantorowicz
On the Brink
The Ill-Fated Steamship St. Louis	185	(7)
Max O. Korman
Two Letters to Hermann Kesten	192	(3)
Stefan Zweig
The Last Day in Europe	195	(3)
Hans Natonek
Seder on a Refugee Ship	198	(9)
Josef Thon
Part III: New Worlds
Introduction	201	(6)
Liberty...and Work in New York
The Sight of New York	207	(4)
Marta Appel
Starting Over	211	(4)
Arnold Bernstein
Arriving in New York	215	(8)
Hertha Nathorff
Everything Is Always Different	223	(6)
Hilde Walter
``The Privilege of Being Safe and Far Away''
Advice from the Midwest	229	(4)
Lessie Sachs
``So Utterly Connected''	233	(7)
Sibylle Ortmann
My Last Day with ernst Toller	240	(4)
Klaus Mann
Ernst Toller's Last Day	244	(5)
Ludwig Marcuse
Exiles, Enemies, or Emigrants?
The ``Enemy Alien'' Question	249	(2)
Gottfried Bermann-Fichers
Thomas Mann
Open Letter to President Roosevelt	251	(2)
Albert Einstein
We Refugees	253	(10)
Hannah Arendt
The Exiled Writer's Relation to His Homeland	263	(8)
Thomas Mann
A German Colony on the Pacific
Life on the Pacific	271	(2)
Alfred Polgar
Letter from the L.A. Public Library	273	(1)
Alfred Doblin
A Part of Myself	274	(6)
Carl Zuckmayer
Exiled from Our Era	280	(9)
Bertolt Brecht
New Lives
A Second Childhood	289	(7)
Alice Herdan
An Immigrant Family	296	(3)
Anonymous
An American Life	299	(12)
Hertha Nathorff
Being Gay, Becoming Jewish	311	(6)
Richard Plant
Caring for the Survivors	317	(8)
William Niederland
False Youth	325	(8)
Gunther Anders
Looking Homeward
On Becoming an American	333	(4)
Peter Gay
On Being an Exile	337	(8)
Henry Paclter
Bibliography	345	(4)
Permissions	349