School for Barbarians Education Under the Nazis

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, slight overall toning, original pictorial wrapper, spine faded, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Modern Age Books, New York, 1938

Erika Mann, daughter of the Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, was an actor and writer known for her criticism of National Socialism and attack on Nazism. Specifically the education system which culminated in this book. Mann married gay poet W.H. Auden in 1935, in order to obtain an English citizenship, after being stripped of her German citizenship, to avoid being left stateless. During World War II she worked as a BBC War Correspondent, reporting on D-Day and attending the Nuremberg Trials. She later settled in Switzerland with her family and died in Zurich in 1969. An important book with a striking wrapper is designed by Irving Politzer.