This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schafer, Emil Strauss, Borries Freiherr von Munchhausen and Rudolf Binding it examines the continuities in volkisch-nationalist thought in Germany from c. 1890 into the post-war period and the ways in which volkisch-nationalists identified themselves in opposition to four successive German regimes: the...