Hitler's Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America
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Hitler's Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America Overview
An extraordinary group portrait of the experiences of exiles from Hitler's Germany, told through contemporary, first-person accounts--many translated for the first time. Between 1933 and 1945, over 150,000 German-speaking refugees fled Hitler's persecution to resettle in the United States. Published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9, 1998), Hitler's Exiles is a composite, firsthand account of this historic migration, focusing on the ordinary people who took this extraordinary voyage. From forgotten archives and little-known published sources, Mark M. Anderson has recaptured the voices of that perilous time. Hitler's Exiles reveals what it was like to leave everything behind, to risk the uncertainty of escape and exile, to start afresh in a country that had little interest and less need for these new exiles. The book features moving, personal stories of individuals such as Hertha Nathorff, a doctor's wife, who remembers her telephone ringing off the hook on Kristallnacht because so many of her husband's patients had suffered heart attacks; Ellen Schoenheimer, whose convoy of women and children gets bombed by the Nazis while evacuating through France; Max Korman, who recounts the harrowing tale of a month spent aboard the ship St. Louis, fleeing from Germany but not allowed to land in Cuba, Britain, or the United States; and Kate Frankenthal, a prominent doctor in Germany, who begins life anew in New York as an ice cream vendor. The book also includes reflections by famous intellectuals such as Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Bertolt Brecht, who offer a trenchant and bitter look at the life of exiles in Hollywood. Hitler's Exiles is a moving human document and a new classic of the literature of exile and persecution.
Hitler's Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America Specifications
Half a million citizens fled Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945; of these, nearly 132,000 came to the United States. Among them were writers such as Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, scholars such as Hannah Arendt and Peter Gay, politicians such as Ernst Toller and Alice Salomon, scientists such as Albert Einstein and Elisabeth Freund, and thousands of ordinary citizens from all walks of life. This useful volume gathers some of their accounts of the perilous flight from Europe, documents their resistance to the Nazi regime, and recounts their impressions of America. Among the writings Anderson reproduces is an impassioned letter by Einstein, Arturo Toscanini, and others to President Franklin Roosevelt protesting these new immigrants being categorized as "aliens of enemy nationality," asking instead that they be recognized as "staunch and consistent defenders of democracy." Some of the men and women who figure in this book returned to Europe after the war. Many others remained; as political scientist Henry Pachter remarks in an essay included here, "Perhaps we can be better Europeans in the United States than anywhere in Europe." --Gregory McNamee
