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Hitler's Exiles is an extraordinary first-hand account of the German Academy, which was established in 1936 as a platform for German intellectuals in America to speak out against Hitler. Its membership covered the leading German-speaking intellectuals who went into exile in opposition to Hitler's Nazi government - including such eminent names as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Prince zu Lowenstein and Bertold Brecht. The main aim of the Academy was to show the world that Hitler and the Nazis were not representative of Germany and that their country could resume its place in the civilised and humane world. Together they helped to shape intellectual and cultural developments in the Western world in the second half on the twentieth century.

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Hitler's Exiles is clearly structured, well-written and offers countless valuable insights into the plight and hopes of an emigre community, portrayed by the author with quite emphatic overtones as a representation of the adere Deutschland. The book is indisputably a solid and well researched analysis, relying heavily on the current literature as well as on unpublished archival materials, most notably from the Deutsches Exilarchiv in Frankfurt am Main. In summary, Hitler's Exiles is an important contribution to the history of German cultural emigration. It promotes our understanding of a unique attempt to organize and consolidate cultural resistance to the barbarism of the German dictatorship while also underscoring the necessity for future research in this field. - German Quarterly Book Reviews --,

Hitler's Exiles is clearly structured, well-written and offers countless valuable insights into the plight and hopes of an emigre community, portrayed by the author with quite emphatic overtones as a representation of the adere Deutschland. The book is indisputably a solid and well researched analysis, relying heavily on the current literature as well as on unpublished archival materials, most notably from the Deutsches Exilarchiv in Frankfurt am Main. In summary, Hitler's Exiles is an important contribution to the history of German cultural emigration. It promotes our understanding of a unique attempt to organize and consolidate cultural resistance to the barbarism of the German dictatorship while also underscoring the necessity for future research in this field. - German Quarterly Book Reviews --Sanford Lakoff Volkmar Zuhlsdorff's book is a rich eyewitness account from one of the last survivors of the group who tries to demonstrate that Germany and Hitler were not identical...[Zuhlsdorff] begins with an overview of the riches of the theater, film, art, music, science, sociology and criticism in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in order to demonstrate what Germany lost...All in all, the eyewitness perspective is this account's strength and the translation is excellent...this is a most valuable publication for all English-speaking readers who are interested in the phenomenon of Hitler's exiles. - Deborah Vietor-Englunder, H-Net Reviews, February 2006--Sanford Lakoff H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online

Volkmar Zuhlsdorff's book is a rich eyewitness account from one of the last survivors of the group who tries to demonstrate that Germany and Hitler were not identical...[Zuhlsdorff] begins with an overview of the riches of the theater, film, art, music, science, sociology and criticism in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in order to demonstrate what Germany lost...All in all, the eyewitness perspective is this account's strength and the translation is excellent...this is a most valuable publication for all English-speaking readers who are interested in the phenomenon of Hitler's exiles. -;em>H-Net Reviews, February 2006--, H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online

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Volkmar Zuhlsdorff was one of the first and youngest member of the German Academy. He has written eight books and was awarded the Order of the White Elephant by the King of Thailand.

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