Marsella 1940 : Los artistas que huyeron del nazismo

In May 1940, Hitler's army invaded France and advanced rapidly, jeopardizing the lives of all those who had fled the Nazi regime since 1933 and sought asylum across the Rhine. Once again, they were forced to flee, this time far from Europe. Uwe Wittstock recounts this dramatic turning point in recent history through the figure of Varian Fry, an American journalist who established the Centre Américain de Secours in Marseille, whose mission was to save leading cultural figures. The French port city became a hotbed of the persecuted and threatened, the only point of escape, bound for America, via Spain, Portugal, or North Africa. There, personalities of the stature of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Heinrich Mann, Anna Seghers, André Breton, Max Ernst, Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, and Marc Chagall converged. This fascinating essay speaks of all of them and many more, narrating day by day the anguish and hopes of those who abandoned everything to save their lives.