1933: The Year Hitler Declared War Against Germany's Artists and Intellectuals

The year 1933 witnesses the death of democracy. It happens in Germany inside the most most highly educated and most literate nation in the world. It is not just democracy that dies but civll and human rights are placed under attack and the intellectuals and artists who uphold these values are placed on assassination lists and sent on the run. 1933: The Shockwave, The Year that Hitler Declared War on Germany's Artists and Intellectuals explores the effect of Hitler's draconian laws on many of the Nazi's top targets.--men and women of the caliber of Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht who feared for their lives as their houses were ransacked and then confiscated. This is an account of that terrible year--how these gifted authors and artists survived, how their approach to their work and their philosophies changed during this violent upturning of accepted norms governing civil society helps us understand our own times.