Thomas Mann Quote

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.


Speech at the US Library of Congress (29 May 1945); published as "Germany and the Germans" ["Deutschland und die Deutschen"] in Die Neue Rundschau [Stockholm] (October 1945), p. 58, as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter


Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.