Word: hausers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GERMAN TALKS BACK - Heinrich Hauser- Henry Holt...
...read it," confesses Publisher Holt, "with anger [and] revulsion, [but] we recognized that these emotions . . . did not answer the question whether the book should or should not be published." Berlin-born (1901) Heinrich Hauser is an experienced journalist, and author of 30-odd novels and political studies (Hitler versus Germany; Battle against Time). In 1939 he fled Germany, not so much, it would seem, because he hated Hitler, but because his children were half Jewish. He wanted to write freely, and he believed that Germany was "accursed." After six years on a farm outside New York City, Hauser still fears...
...America and Europe," he has decided, "have come to a final parting of the roads." Separated by an unbridgeable "spiritual chasm," America and Germany today represent to Author Hauser not only the "extremes of wealth and poverty" but also the extremes of decadence and the Spartan spirit. Readers of The German Talks Back, which is partly autobiographical, will catch on to the manner of man Author Hauser is when they recognize that ever since childhood he has arbitrarily split his worlds into "decadent" and "Spartan" halves...
Phony Culture. Author Hauser was raised in old-world Weimar, home of Goethe and Schiller, and one of German culture's most sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the epitome of decadence. When World War I broke out, he and his school friends were deliriously happy at the thought of "action, motor cars and planes, dynamic life...
...rock of religious faith, that it demanded austerity, unflinching loyalty and toil. Prussianism in action was "the militant church," and those who sought to crush it attacked "the fundamental values and virtues of every monastic order in the world." The Arrogant Americans. In the black post-War I years, Hauser learned to hate both the ineffectual democracy of the Weimar Republic and the luxury-ridden democracy of the U.S. Like many un employed Germans, he lived in flop houses, sought rest and warmth in movie houses...