Archive for March, 2021

Polarization in crisis: Nazi Germany and US today

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

Anna Segher’s short stories and especially her novel of political imprisonment and escape, The Seventh Cross, explore a progressive fracture of German society in the 1930s caused by the rise of the Nazi party. Reading her painstaking descriptions of where the ripple effects of the polarization catch individuals and whole social networks evokes constant parallels [...]