Weimar in Exile by Jean Michel Palmier

Author:Jean Michel Palmier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)

Part Two

Exile in America 1939–45: From the

Second World War to McCarthyism

If I had not felt embarrassed before the others, I would have kissed the American earth.

Alma Mahler, And the Bridge Is Love

it is difficult for refugees to avoid either indulging in wild abuse of the ‘Americans’ or ‘talking with their pay-checks in their mouths’ as KORTNER puts it when he is having a go at those who earn well and talk well of the USA.

Bertolt Brecht, Journals, 14 November 1941

I leave this country in bitterness and rage. I could perfectly well understand why the Hitler bandits should put a price on my head and turn me out […]. But I feel deeply wounded by the ridiculous way in which I am being expelled from this fine country […]. I carry with me the image of the real American people whom I love.

Hanns Eisler, 26 March 1948

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