Exilliteratur
Sign in to saveGerman (, exile literature) is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.
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- Writers of prominence
- History and readership
- Among German personnel
- Feuchtwanger affair
- Exile writers
- See also
- References
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German (, exile literature) is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.
==Writers of prominence== The exodus included most writers of prominence.
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