Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Biography and Autobiography) by Stephen Parker

Author:Stephen Parker
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Published: 2014-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Brecht questioned the reality of the regime’s apparent strength:

On the whole the ruling apparatus is consolidating itself, growing stronger but more isolated, losing its metastases in the ‘people’, becoming something more and more extraneous, a foreign body. Undoubtedly this is a good thing. And the process is a rapid one. The regime is indeed growing stronger, but regardless of how it solves the unemployment problem, it is drawing on the budget of the future.

Like many compatriots then and now across the political spectrum, following the hyper-inflation Brecht had no faith in counter-cyclical Keynesianism to deal with deep-seated economic crisis. However, under the economic management of Hjalmar Schacht the Nazis now embarked on their own brand of a New Deal for Germany, with the construction of motorways and other public works, not to mention their use of political prisoners as forced labour, which would become industrial-scale slavery and murder. Brentano, for his part, voiced his profound shock at the brutal reality of Nazism: ‘How in all the world is it that this lunatic is murdering my best friends?’.34 The terror would only intensify after Hindenburg died in August and Hitler received 89.9 per cent of the votes to confirm him as President.

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