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In Writing against Hitler, Daniel Siemens reconstructs the history of the struggles of socialist intellectuals in Germany from the 1930s through the post–World War II era by focusing on the life of one influential member of that group, Hermann Budzislawski (1901–78). In the 1930s, Budzislawski was a journalist who served as the editor in chief of the prominent antifascist journal Die neue Weltbühne. After the German occupation of France, he worked in exile in the United States until 1948, when he moved to East Germany. He became influential in training a new generation of journalists and worked as a politician. Through the twin stories of a highly ambitious figure and the legendary publication he headed, Siemens charts the course of the intellectual Left’s rise and decline in power during the decades that shaped the political divides of the twentieth century. Crucially, his account challenges the widely held belief that post-1989 German unification has represented a victory over the traumas of the past. Instead, Siemens shows the complexity of different strains of socialist thought and activity and demonstrates the contested place of Nazi Germany’s exiles at the center of Cold War Germany’s cultural history.
Author(s): Siemens D
Series Editor(s): Steven E. Aschheim; Annette Becker; Skye Doney; David J. Sorkin
Translator(s): Ben Fowkes
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Year: 2025
Number of Pages: 384
Online publication date: 21/01/2025
Acceptance date: 04/11/2024
Publisher: Wisconsin University Press
Place Published: Madison/Wisconsin, USA
URL: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/W/Writing-against-Hitler
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ISBN: 9780299351304
