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Less grandly and more directly, Thomas Mann's daughter Erika describes those whom such a plea might -could it reach them move. Her method is not oratori cal but artfully journalistic. Her book, subtitled Middletown -Nazi Version, is a narration of fact throughout, and she has taken convincing care that her characters and her facts shall be typical. In a prologue and ten stories she brings into detailed focus the nature of a nameless German city shortly before the war: the sickness of all its parts, the inchoate readiness of its people to overthrow the leaders they had accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Manns on Germany | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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