The deep conviction... that nothing good for Germany or the world can come out of the present German regime, has made me avoid the country in whose spiritual tradition I am more deeply rooted than are those who for three years have been trying to find courage enough to declare before the world that I am not a German. And I feel to the bottom of my heart that I have done right in the eyes of my contemporaries and of posterity.


Responding to anti-semitic propaganda and to criticisms of German writers living in exile during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany, as quoted in "Homage to Thomas Mann" in The New Republic (1 April 1936)

Thomas Mann Quotes

The deep conviction... that nothing good for Germany or the world can come out of the present German regime, has made me avoid the country in whose...

The deep conviction... that nothing good for Germany or the world can come out of the present German regime, has made me avoid the country in whose...

The deep conviction... that nothing good for Germany or the world can come out of the present German regime, has made me avoid the country in whose...

The deep conviction... that nothing good for Germany or the world can come out of the present German regime, has made me avoid the country in whose...