It's not a fresh start, but institutionalized amnesia, in which minority groups lose their protections and violence waits in the wings ...

It's lucky that Hans Fallada's novel "Every Man Dies Alone" emerged from obscurity this year in its first English translation. Otherwise our image of the German resistance to Hitler might have been ...

To anyone who’s depressed about the state of literary culture these days, Dennis Johnson would like to offer a three-word pep talk: Go to Chicago. It was during a recent visit that Johnson, founder of ...

This is the background story to the writing and eventual publication of Hans Fallada's A Stranger in My Own Country (Polity), a memoir of life in Nazi Germany written secretly by him while in prison ...

The Nazis didn’t kill German novelist Hans Fallada, but they were in many ways responsible for his untimely death in 1947, at the age of 53. There can be no question that Fallada’s already frail ...

Shaer is a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor. NEW YORK — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones ...

Hans Fallada, the literary pseudonym of Rudolf Ditzen, was far more contradictory than any of the many characters he invented in his colourful fiction, which took as its theme ordinary people ...

Killer, junkie, jailbird, head case, both approved and condemned by the Nazis, a sort of belated poète maudit and proto-beatnik – when you read about Hans Fallada’s life you can’t help feeling that ...

Rawer and more unevenly wrought than Alone in Berlin, Nightmare is the necessary precursor to that great work. By Jane Shilling Returning to his apartment in ruined postwar Berlin from a sanatorium ...

Hans Fallada, author of A Small Circus and Alone in Berlin. Hans Fallada’s 1947 thriller set in Nazi Germany, Alone in Berlin, was a belated bestseller in the English-speaking world when a new ...

Reporting from New York — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones Ulrich Ditzen likes to remember. He was just ...

To start off, I have to admit that I had already read Every Man Dies Alone in bound galleys before I was asked to review it. I read it, and then I wrote a blurb for it. Passionately. I wrote this ...