DW book expert David Levitz on ′The Seventh Cross′ by Anna Seghers | 100 German Must-Reads - a unique list of 100 works of German literature published in English | DW | 05.10.2018

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100 Must-Reads

DW book expert David Levitz on 'The Seventh Cross' by Anna Seghers

See no evil, hear no evil?  After World War II, many Germans claimed not to have known about the crimes of the Nazis. "The Seventh Cross" by Anna Seghers highlights how much people could have known early on about what was happening in Nazi Germany.

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