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“There is, so to speak, a politics of the literary emigration.”

Joseph Roth on the “Politics of Literary Emigration”

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s seizure of power. By February 1933, he was…

“The Jews are not the only ones they are out to get. […] The onslaught this time is against European civilization, against humanity, whose proud champion you are.”

Joseph Roth on Identity

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s seizure of power. By February 1933, he was…

“The barbarians have taken over. Do not deceive yourself. Hell reigns.”

Joseph Roth’s grim prophecy in mid-February 1933, Paris

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s rise to power. By February 1933, he was…

“You know what time feels like, an hour is a lake, a day is a sea, the night is an eternity, waking up is a thunderclap of dread, getting up a struggle for clarity against fevered nightmares.”

Joseph Roth: Sleepless in Paris

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s seizure of power. By February 1933, he was…

“They are so hard there with those poor wretches that I need to pull myself together if I am not to burst out crying—and they have to be hard, otherwise there wouldn’t be something for everyone.”

Joseph Roth on the Deutsches Hilfskomitee

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s seizure of power. By February 1933, he was…

“Hate is even more magically powerful than love.”

Joseph Roth: Money Issues

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s seizure of power. By February 1933, he was…

Interwar Paris: Capitale de Refuge Miriam Chorley-Schulz

“I really don’t want to be an émigré.”

Jospeh Roth’s Fear for the Future

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939) did not wait long and left Berlin shortly after Hitler’s seizure of power. By February 1933, he was…

“Following his break with Nazism, Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winning German author, has just become a member of the German Academy of Arts and Letters”

Thomas Mann becomes a member of the German Academy

This document is a text about the admission of Thomas Mann (1875-1955) to the German Academy of Arts and Literature, which is part of…

“I wanted to sit by the side of the road, to die rather than walk. It was hopeless after all”

Hertha Pauli’s “Journal of an Escape” from France

From October to November 1940, writer Hertha Pauli published a three-part account of her escape through German-occupied France via Spain and Portugal to the…