Jean-Michel Palmier's book establishes more fully than any other the extent of emigration of Germany's greatest minds and talents, and that neither the exiles nor Germany ever fully recovered - Financial Times. What fascinates the late Jean-Michel Palmier, in this magisterial study, is the speed and thoroughness with which Weimar culture...was destroyed by the Nazis, never to return ... Read more- Independent A monumental study, an impressive testament to the experiences, achievements and far-reaching influences of the refugees - Scotsman
A monumental work. - Le Monde
Jean-Michel Palmier published books on Georg Trakl, Hegel, Lenin, Lacanand Marcuse, as well as studies on German expressionism and a great work on the fate of anti-Nazi intellectuals, Weimar in Exile, celebrated by the Academie francaise. Everything fascinated him. He was a scholar who anxiously, almost mystically, quested after knowledge, and reminded one of amedieval philosopher even more than of a Renaissance man of letters. He was obsessed with art and culture. He was a surveyor of the past who tracked its faintest traces. - Le Monde Diplomatique This is an extraordinary book: in its historical breadth, its command of literature, documents, and archival material, its ambitious scope, and its sweeping judgments. - Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Show Less