The Films That Foretold Fascism
The New Republic · 17 days ago

On April 15, 1941, the small steamship Nyassa slipped out of Lisbon carrying 816 refugees, nearly double its legal capacity of 457. Among them were Siegfried Kracauer, former film and literature editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung , and his wife, Lili, who had spent years on the run—fleeing Germany…
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