Hitler's Exiles

This book is an extraordinary first-hand account of the German Academy in Exile. The Academy 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 architects, including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht 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 civilized and humane world.