Commentant les compromissions de leurs collègues restés en Allemagne, les intellectuels ayant fui les nazis sont passés d'un discours extrêmement sévère à un jugement plus nuancé.
Une " excellente étude précise et documentée "
(G.A. Goldschmidt, La Quinzaine Littéraire)
Commenting on the compromises of their colleagues who stayed in Germany, intellectuals fleeing the Nazis evolved from a very strict discourse to a more balanced judgment.
Table of contents: 1933: The Benn Case – Facing Benn: Controversy or Excommunication - Staging a Self-Exclusion – Integration role and Dominant Discourse – To Inform : A Political Gesture – Mitigating Circumstances : The Nazi Dictatorship - The Impetus of the Communists on the United Front – Thomas Mann’s Place in Emigration - Moving the Border and Rebuilding the Community – Klaus Mann and Germany.