"Mann has the high and now seldom encountered liberal virtue of elevating any discussion to another plane β of writing as if men were reasoning creatures, even if the evidence points to the contrary. Calmly and logically he showed that the novel is today "the representative and dominating literary work of art" β that the Jewish influence is not preponderant among the exiled novelists β that the international or European spirit, shared equally by Jewish and gentile writers, has helped to raise Germany from barbarism. And he added that the anti-Semitic campaign of the present German rulers "is aimed, essentially, not at the Jews at all, or not at them exclusively. It is aimed at Europe and at the real spirit of Germany.""
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Anonymous editorial "Homage to Thomas Mann" in The New Republic (1 April 1936)
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1875 β 1955
deutscher Schriftsteller
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