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Snapshots from the third Reich: from the Ivory Tower to Sally Bowles.(Books)(Book Review)

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| November 01, 2004 | Peter Coleman | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IN HIS BITTER MEMOIR, Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner outlined three kinds of internal exile that tempted dissidents under the triumphant Nazi regime. Each one brought its own spiritual death.

One was a retreat to the Ivory Tower. You had no illusions about the new barbarism, but you tried to remain aloof, good-natured and civilised. Some in the Ivory Tower found consolation in Voltaire's Candide or the Annals of Tacitus. Others wrote tender little baubles about childhood holidays, first love, baked apples and cowbells. Yet few were able to withstand the torchlight parades, book burnings, concentration camps and the totalitarian politicisation of life. Your ...

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