Not too long after the close of the war, exiled German author Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955) was invited to return to Germany. Walter von Molo, a German writer, who during the Nazi regime remained and worked in Germany, sent the invitation to Mann as an “Open Letter” in the name of German intellectuals. Attached an excerpt of the writer’s response.
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