Roaring Back from Obscurity, a Novel Charts Hitler’s Rise
‘The Oppermans’ tells the story of the Nazi ascendancy in real time.
‘The Oppermans,’ by Lion Feucthwanger
Translated by James Cleugh, Introduction by Joshua Cohen
McNally Editions, 400 pages
Journalism is often called history’s first draft, but the rare novel manages to scoop even the zealous newspaper. “The Oppermans,” by Lion Feuchtwanger, is such a novel, written in the blur of real time as Germany molted into the Reich. It is a dispatch from the tipping point and sheds light on what it felt like to live under the gathering shadows of looming catastrophe.
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