Edward Dahlberg, American writer, refused to give permission to a Berlin publisher to translate and publish his books in Germany until the “Nazis have freed all workers, intellectuals, all anti-Fascists who are in Hitlerism is destroyed, an article in the current issue of the New Masses, reveals.
The Rowohlt Verlag of Berlin asked Dahlberg’s publishers for the German rights to the books. In answer, Dahlberg, according to a letter in the magazine, write in part: “To be published today in Germany is a dishonor which I do not want and shall not claim.”
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