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Indoctrinated, but not Incurable? Klaus Mann's Interrogation of German Prisoners of War in 1944
2011
It has been stated that ‘die personlichen Erfahrungen […] mit deutschen Kriegsgefangenen zu Ende des Krieges’ led to disillusion and disappointment among the German exiles who fought in the war against Hitler.1 This disappointment manifested itself in the many conflicts between former exiles on the one hand and representatives of the governments of their host nations as well as fellow Germans on the other. Like Stefan Heym, Hans Habe and others, the writer in exile Klaus Mann felt obliged to devote himself to the war against National Socialism, not only in his works, but also as a man of action. As a member of the Psychological Warfare Branch of the Fifth Army he worked in a propaganda unit…
“… der harte Glanz des Hasses”: Satire und Humanismus im Exilwerk Klaus Manns
2017
Angesichts der Herausforderungen des Exils suchte der Schriftsteller Klaus Mann nach neuen narrativen Strategien, um seine literarischen Antworten auf die Fragen der Zeit zu formulieren. Starker al...