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A 10 page essay that examines and offers an overview of Lion Feuchtwanger's 1934 novel, which successfully described and predicted the horrors of Nazi Germany and the threat that the Hitler regime represented. As Ruth Gruber explains in her introduction to the English translation, when Feuchtwanger wrote this book, the world was still in denial about the threat that Hitler posed to the international peace and, specifically, the threat that the Nazi Party posed toward European Jewry. The writer discusses the themes of Nationalism, anti-Semitism and political trends. No additional sources cited.
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of furniture stores prior to Hitler assuming power in the early 1930s. As Ruth Gruber explains in her introduction to the English translation, when Feuchtwanger wrote this book, the world
was still in denial about the threat that Hitler posed to the international peace and, specifically, the threat that the Nazi Party posed toward European Jewry (viii). Gruber states
that many people were apathetic about Hitler, considering him to be a "clown with a Charlie Chaplin moustache" (vi). Feuchtwanger had the foresight to see beyond the pretense and the
hype, as his books, essays and plays "tore open the curtain of anti-Semitism in Germany" (vi). Feuchtwangers novel is, therefore, an early wake-up call to the world, a call that
the world would have done well to heed in 1934, which predates Hitlers invasion of Poland in 1939 the start of World War II by five years. The
Oppermanns is divided into three sections, entitled "Yesterday," "Today" and "Tomorrow." The first section, "Yesterday," introduces the Oppermann family and establishes what their lives were like prior to the rise
of Nazism. Influential businessmen, prominent storeowners, as well as an internationally recognized doctor, the family Oppermann are presented as exemplifying the Jewish intelligentsia. It is typical of the modern
reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi threat and save themselves and at least
part of their wealth. This section of the book dramatizes the mindset of many prominent Jewish families at this time, who could not conceive that their homeland, a country in
which their families had lived for centuries, could turn against them. For example, Feuchtwanger establishes his principal protagonist, Gustav Oppermann, within the context of the home he loves. He
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