In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
I didn't care where my works were published.
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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