Genealogy Projects tagged with German Austrian Intelligencia on the Geni Family Tree

French Riviera: Intellectual Exile In Paradise (1933-1945)

With the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, a great number of German writers, artists and intellectuals left Germany and settled in Sanary sur Mer on the French Riviera. Ludwig Marcuse in his book "Mein Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert" (p.160) wrote about Sanary: "Wir wohnten im Paradies - notgedrungen" - we lived in paradise, against our will . "If one lives in exile," wrote Hermann Kest...