![]() ![]() He had gone from supporting the Kaiser’s war fever to becoming an advocate of democratic socialism. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist hysteria discouraged Mann so much that he moved to Switzerland for good and died there in 1955.Īfter the war, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist hysteria discouraged Mann so much-it seemed to him America was succumbing to the same kind of thinking that had produced Nazism-that he moved to Switzerland for good and died there in 1955. ![]() He made it to America, where he taught at Princeton, then moved to Los Angeles, where a prominent German expatriate community, including Bertolt Brecht, Franz Werfel and Heinrich, with whom Thomas had reconciled, provided an intellectual home. So Mann spent the rest of his life in exile from the country he had so vociferously and irrationally (more on that in a moment) defended in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man. According to Nigel Hamilton, author of The Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 55, “The weather, they said as pointedly as possible, had worsened.” What this meant in real terms was that Mann had been declared an enemy of the state, and his chauffeur, a secret member of the Brownshirts, was coveting the family car. In March of 1933, while he was on holiday with his Jewish wife in Switzerland, two of Mann’s children, Klaus and Erika, phoned their parents from Germany. ![]() ![]() The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (trans. ![]()
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