Thou shalt dwell in houses thou hast not builded

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

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…