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Thou shalt dwell in houses thou hast not builded

German novelist Lion Feuchtwanger writes to the new occupants of his house

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Shaun Usher
Jul 07, 2022
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Lion Feuchtwanger in 1953. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

In January of 1933, as he toured the US giving lectures, influential German-Jewish novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger received word that Adolf Hitler, a man whose beliefs he had been publicly lambasting for the past decade, had risen to power back in Germany, his home and place o…

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