institutions German reeducation program

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Titel German reeducation program
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ID 8656
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Date 1945
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  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8656/
    Notes The exiled writers were divided over the issue of Germany. Thomas Mann had not known about the concentration camps until April or May 1945, though what he then learned filled him with revulsion and fury. “Germany is detested by the whole world today as the archetype of Evil,” he wrote in his essay on concentration camps for the Frankfurter Presse on May 10, 1945. [...] Lion Feuchtwanger suggested that “three million Nazis must be arrested, killed, or exiled.” Bruno Frank “called for an army of occupation for a generation as the only guarantor of peace,” while Alfred Döblin thought that “Educating the Germans is almost hopeless because the majority of the professional classes are Nazis.” (see Frank in "Ideas Crossing the Atlantic", p.242).
    References Lothar Kettenacker, “The Planning of ‘Re-education’ during the Second World War.” In Pronay and Wilson, ed., The Political Re-Education of Germany, 62-65.

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    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    received support from Mann, Thomas
    received support from Feuchtwanger, Lion
    received support from Ludwig, Emil
    received support from Döblin, Alfred
    received support from Kefauver, Grayson N.
    1945-05 related MacLeish, Archibald
    received support from Frank, Bruno

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