Birth of the German-Jewish novelist/playwright Lion Feuchtwanger in Munich, Germany. His best known novel is Jud Süß. Feuchtwangers fierce criticism of the Nazi Party—years before it assumed power—ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitlers appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Following a brief period of internment in France, and a harrowing escape from Continental Europe, he sought asylum in the United States, where he died in 1958. Feuchtwanger is often praised for his efforts to expose the brutality of the Nazis and occasionally criticized for his failure to acknowledge supposed brutality of the Soviets and the Communist Party under Joseph Stalin.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:30:39 +0000
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