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The Oppermanns
Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation revised and introduced by Joshua Cohen
Translated from the German by James Cleugh
Notes by Richard J. Evans
Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation revised and introduced by Joshua Cohen
Translated from the German by James Cleugh
Notes by Richard J. Evans
Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation revised and introduced by Joshua Cohen
Translated from the German by James Cleugh
Notes by Richard J. Evans
Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger The Oppermanns (German: Die Geschwister Oppermann) is a 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger. It is the second novel in his Wartesaal ("The Waiting Room") trilogy, which tells about the rise of Nazism in Germany; the first part of the trilogy is Success (1930) and the last is Exil (1940). In the same year when the novel was written, in 1933, the Nazis fully came into power, and the author published the novel while already in exile. The novel was written while the Nazis were coming into power in the Weimar Republic; it was completed in 1933, the same year Adolf Hitler became chancellor. Feuchtwanger, a German Jew[1] who was already well known for his criticism of the NSDAP, that year was stripped of his citizenship, his property in Berlin was seized, his works were included in the lists of "Un-German" literature that was burned in May, and he was forever banned from publishing in the newly established Third Reich. The Oppermanns was first printed by the Dutch Querido Verlag, when the aut Berlin, early November, 1932: Gustav Oppermann wakes up in a terrible mood — despite the fact that it's his 50th birthday: "Hadn't those fifty years been good years? Here he lay, the owner of a fine house that suited him exactly, of a substantial bank account, of a valuable business partnership; he was a collector and connoisseur of fine books, a gold medallist in sports. His two brothers and sisters were fond of him, he had a friend whom he could trust, a host of entertaining acquaintances, as many women as he wanted, an adorable mistress." Oppermann appears to lead a life that is more than fulfilling, without a single worry in the world. But the same cannot be said for most people whose lives take place outside the kinds of circles that the Oppermanns frequent: Unemployment in Germany continues to soar, with more than 6 million people out of work. Adolf Hitler's NSADP party enjoys growing popularity, having recently received the most votes in yet another round of elections, though still falling con
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The Oppermanns
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Lion Feuchtwanger: 'The Oppermanns'
'The Oppermanns' by Lion Feuchtwanger
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