GERMANY: MY COUNTRY (Es Werde Deutschland)

Octavo, green cloth covers with red titles on top cover and spine, and red emblem on rear cover. 288 pages. Includes a prefatory letter to Jonathan Cape. Some offset browning on endpapers. Covers have light wear at edges, spine a bit darkened, still very good. No dust jacket. World War II, National Socialism, Propaganda "In Sieburg's bookEs werde Deutschland, which he completed in November 1932 but which was not published until after Hitler had come to power, he moved, as his friendCarl Zuckmayerjudged in hissecret reportin 1944 , on a very dangerous and very blurred line - between nationalism, criticism of 'liberal thinking' and political progressiveness. However, this also included the decisive rejection ofanti-Semitism, which is why the book was banned in 1936.In 1939, Sieburg was appointed to the GermanForeign Service. According to Longerich, who cites Max W. Clauss, about two dozen Nazi-affiliated journalists were brought toRibbentropinFuschl am Seein the summer and there,Friedrich Berber, who acted as boss, gave them an ultimatum to work abroad as Nazi propagandists. Clauss claims to have refused, while Sieburg,Hans Georg von StudnitzandKarl Megerleimmediately agreed.From February 1940, Sieburg worked at the German Embassy in Brussels as a "special representative" of the Foreign Office. He was given the rank of embassy counselor.From 1940 to 1942, he was in occupied France." -- from Wikipedia 092508B

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Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Year: 1933

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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