The writers' castle : reporting history at Nuremberg

Author/Creator:

Neumahr, Uwe, author

Publication/Creation:

London : Pushkin Press, 2024

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The writers' castle : reporting history at Nuremberg / Uwe Neumahr ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase

Uniform Title:

Schloss der schriftsteller.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Chase, Jefferson S., translator

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Schloss Faber-Castell
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
Reporters and reporting--Germany--Nuremberg
Journalists--Germany--Nuremberg
Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Foreword -- A castle made of pencils -- American defeats, or the melancholy of John Dos Passos -- Countess Katharina and Gestapo head Rudolf Diels -- Erich Kästner's broken promise -- Erika Mann, her "beloved lunatic" and an unpleasant reunion -- William Shirer and the good Wehrmacht general -- Alfred Döblin's didactic deception: the phantom resident of Schloss Faber-Castell -- Janet Flanner and the cross-examination of Hermann Göring -- The French Stalinism of Elsa Triolet -- Willy Brandt, Markus Wolf and the Katyn Massacre -- Rebecca West's doomed affair -- Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's shadow and the shock of Dachau -- Painting to escape the horror: Wolfgang Hildesheimer and the Einsatzgruppen Trial -- A kind of afterword: Golo Mann's plea for Rudolf Hess.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"A gripping, fresh approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it. Nuremberg, 1946. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner. Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing. Here, tensions simmer between Soviet and Western journalists, unlikely affairs begin, stories are falsified and fabricated - and each reporter is forever changed by what they experience. As Uwe Neumahr builds an engrossing group portrait of the luminaries at Nuremberg, we are taken to the heart of the political and cultural conflicts of the time - observing history at the very moment it was being written"--Publisher's description.

Language:

English

Language Note:

In English, translated from the German.

Physical Type/Description:

xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

General Note:

Originally published as Das Schloss der Schriftsteller by Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München, in 2023.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9938028471202486

ISBN:

1805330713
9781805330714
9781805330691
1805330691

OCLC Number:

1453617367

Barcode:

010003589443