Hitler's Exiles The German Cultural Resistance in America and Europe

This book is an extraordinary first-hand account of the German Academy in Exile. The Acedemy 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 National Socialist government - artists, writers, musicians, scientists, philosophers, film directors and arcitects, including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brect and many more.

Together they helped to shape intellectual and cultural developments in the western world in the second half on the twentieth century. They came together in the Academy to show the world that Hitler and the Nazis were not Germany and that their country could resume its place in the civilised and humane world.



Table of Contents


1. The Background
2. Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein - founder of the German Academy in Exile
3. Richard Arnold Bermann - Co-founder of the Academy
4. The American Guild for German Cultural Freedom - the American aid organization and its sponsors
5. The German Academy of Arts and Sciences in Exile - formation, development and structure
6. Thomas Mann - President of the Academy's Literary Division
7. Sigmund Freud - President of the Academy's Scientific Divsion
8. Rudolf Olden - Senator of the Ademcy and leader of the Germna P.E.N. club in Exile
9. The Arden Society - The American Guild's sister organization in England
10. Jesse Thoor - A poet discovered in exile
11. The Academy in Exile's public relations work and its influence
12. Academy Scholarships
13. The 'Literary Contest'
14. After the Outbreak of War
15. The Way Forward - the continuing influence of the Academy in Exile
16. Appendices
17. Afterword by the author and the publisher of the German edition
18. Bibliography