At home threatened by death, exile full of hardness and privation. The historian Wolfgang Benz impressively traces the flight of normal people from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
One of the best -known characters in exile history during National Socialism is the writer Lion Feuchtwanger. On January 30, 1933, the day of power to Hitler, the famous author was on a lecture trip in the United States. In Germany, as a Jew and a well -known Nazi enemy, immediate arrest would have threatened him. He mostly spent the years of exile in southern French Sanary-sur-Mer and Los Angeles, although he had also got to know the hardships and deprivation of emigration in a French internment camp and on the subsequent escape over the Pyrenees. Feuchtwanger's exile chic is well documented, just recently again in Uwe Wittstock's overview of the overview “Marseille 1940: The Great Escape of Literature” (CH Beck 2024).
