BOOKS: Hell Hitler!

Heil Hitler!

THE OPPERMANNS—Lion Feuchtwangcr —Viking ($2.50). One result of the Nazis' anti-Semite campaign has been to bring Historical-Novelist Feuchtwanger up to date. His best book, Power, was set in the 18th Century, and though Success was a contemporary record it was written from the backward-looking vantage of an historian. But in The Oppermanns Author Feuchtwanger no longer writes as a cool observer of barbarous times but as a member of an injured race. This story of what has been happening to the Jews in Germany will perhaps be taken by...

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