“Among the authors he condemned to the flames were obvious targets like Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Arnold and Stephan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. But others were less understandable: why should they burn Emil and the detectives, for instance, or Bambi, simply because their authors, Eric Kästner and Felix Salten respectively, were deemed unacceptable?”
The devil’s disciples; the lives and times of Hitler’s inner circle
ANTHONY READ
Pimlico, 2004
923 págs.