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Anti-Nazi Thriller
Trilling, Diana | November 14, 1942 issue

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This article provides information on the book "Hostages," by Stefan Heym. Heym's novel about the Nazis in Czechoslovakia will set one's mind. No doubt a faithful record of what it is like to live under the Nazi terror, it piles horror upon horror in nearly unbearable quantity and photographic detail-torture, rape, all the excruciating paraphernalia of Nazi sadism. One gets the impression that Heym hates violence almost too much, he is so fascinated by it. But neither his sincere passion against Nazism nor the emotions which his readers will bring to his subject can raise his book to the place claimed for it in the ranks of serious anti-fascist literature.

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BOOKS & reading; HOSTAGES (Book); HEYM, Stefan, 1913-2001; NAZIS; ANTI-Nazi movement in literature; AUTHORITARIANISM
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