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who fall victim to the rise of the Nazis.

“For awakening Germany, for the Leader, for the one-way street to Jerusalem,” they cried in their clear, boyish voices. We know how terrifyingly prescient the author of this book was. Rigid and sullen, his stiff face with its gray mustache unmoved, the old porter Leschinsky stood at his post. The stiff newness of their uniforms, with the smell of the tailor shop still upon them, their salutes in the ancient manner, reminded him of extras in a provincial theater.

Let us get the German Furniture Company established, gentlemen, and then we can wait quietly until our friend comes to us.”

“Well and good,” said Jaques Lavendel, directing an ami- able glance at Herr Hintze, “but suppose he doesn’t come to us? Do you believe your capital will be confiscated? Suppose he listens to what the Leader says every day on the radio?

Now, during his first drive through the city, Gustav noticed with distaste the extent to which the barbarians were spreading themselves. Click here for that audio.

Lion Feuchtwanger's 1933 novel "The Oppermanns" tells the story of a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. Gustav’s car, driven fast and expertly by Schlüter, could not make very rapid progress.

Still another traffic light.

And yet, as one character -- a teenage girl, one of the few characters who sees things clearly -- observes, "It is easy to let the barbarians loose but difficult to get them back into their box."

We know where all this is leading. Do you really believe that, because a few thousand young, armed ruffians roam about in the streets, there is an end of Germany?” He was

sitting very erect and looked very large; his pleasant face expressed annoyance and excitement.

I do not understand why all of you suddenly have the jitters. Why was it just now, when the Nationalist movement was on the wane, that a man like the author of Mein Kampf had been put in charge of the highest office in the land? Protest? He let down the window of the car to hear what they were shouting. In other words, Feuchtwanger wrote the book as the events he describes were taking place.

He asked Herr Brieger to give his opinion.

The big-nosed, emphatically Jewish-looking little Herr Brieger spoke as flippantly as ever. Questions the characters wrestle with -- "Was it not an impossible undertaking to make a law of anti-Semitism?