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Product Description: A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to powerIn 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality...read more

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9781844670680 | Verso Books, July 31, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Traces the 1930s flight of German intellectuals, artists, militants, and other opponents of the Nazi regime, discussing how their works reflected their resistance to oppression as well as the rise of national socialism and their return to ruined homes, in a collective portrait that includes profiles of such figures as Walter Benjamin, Heinrich Mann, and Anna Seghers.

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9781784786441 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, January 10, 2017), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to powerIn 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany.

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Product Description: Exile is as old as humanity itself but a radically new fate for the ""novice"" exile, who falls into a world about which personal experience can tell him nothing. He does, however, know a great number of stories -- myths, legends, allegories, biblical or historical accounts -- about exile...read more

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9781571135902 | Camden House, August 1, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Exile is as old as humanity itself but a radically new fate for the ""novice"" exile, who falls into a world about which personal experience can tell him nothing.

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Product Description: This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film...read more

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9789042025400 | Bilingual edition (Rodopi Bv Editions, January 1, 2009), cover price $126.00 | About this edition: This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany.

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