The German Lesson

Name: The German Lesson
Author: Siegfried Lenz

by Siegfried Lenz

Novel of painter's refusal to paint during Nazi occupation of Denmark

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Siegfried Lenz

German novelist and one of the most widely read authors in postwar German literature. The German Lesson is his masterpiece, an examination of German obedience and the suppression of art under National Socialism.

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