Thomas Mann’s Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945

JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. ELAINE CHEN is a PhD candidate in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, MA. HANS RUDOLF VAGET is Professor Emeritus of German Studies at Smith College, MA. FRIDO MANN is a psychologist, professor, and author whose recent books The White House of Exile (2018) and Democracy Will Win (2021) regard the legacy of Thomas Mann.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: Thomas Mann's Listen, Germany!-Today an Appeal to the WorldFrido MannIllustrationsIntroduction: Thomas Mann's War on FascismHans Rudolf VagetForeword to the Book Edition of 1943Thomas MannTranslators' NoteJeffrey L. High and Elaine ChenThe AddressesOctober 1940November 1940December 1940February 1941March 1941April 1941Mai 1941June 1941July 1941August 1941August 1941 (Special Broadcast)September 1941October 1941November 194124 December 1941 (Special Broadcast)December 1941January 1942February 1942March 1942April 1942 (Special Broadcast)April 1942May 1942June 1942July 1942August 194227 September 1942Address to Americans of German Descent [15 October 1942]24 October 194229 November 194227 December 1942[15 January 1943]24 January 194323 February 194328 March 194325 April 194325 May 1943[27 June 1943]27 July 194329 August 194329 September 194330 October 19439 December 194331 December 194330 January 194428 February 194428 March 1944[1 May 1944]29 May 19441 January 194514 January 194516 January 1945[31 January 1945][16 February 1945][4 March 1945]20 March 19455 April 194519 April 194510 May 1945[8 November 1945]Index

Thanks to this superb new edition of Mann's radio addresses, scholars can take a fresh look at one aspect of Mann's response to Nazi Germany, while all readers can ponder the unfortunate relevance of his polemics to our present predicament.