Foreword / by Marjorie Perloff
Translators' preface Introduction
Stunned by the seizure of power
Goebbels, manipulative modernism, and bucolic Jew-baiting
Political leadership and artistic transfiguration
Heidegger and the verbal accomplices of violence
Gottfried Benn and the sacrifice of intellect
Papen's two-faced politics and the military tradition
Turning headlines into lies
Purveyors of culture and the PEN Congress
Verbal imperialism : "Germany, awaken!"
Self-refuting rhetoric and the price of butter
Rubbing salt in the wound
Translations from the Hebrew?
Soundbite-hooks and foreign policy
Austrian independence and the innocent aggressor
Sexual hatred, "unforced" conversation, and an act of defiance
Dollfuss and the Social Democrats
Casting out the Devil through Beelzebub
Between two fascisms : language brings everything to light
Headlong into servitude : when madmen lead the blind
Out of the abyss : Prussian eagles and parched tongues
Where lawlessness makes law its instrument
Prophets of doom and the triumph of Aryan Teutonism.
