''Listen, Germany!'' is the published collection of letters by exiled German author

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

to his former country during

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. Originally published in 1943 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., these letters, twenty-five of them, were read over long and medium wave radio broadcasts being made by the

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into

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as part of the allied propaganda effort from October 1940 to August 1943. The

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original, ''Deutsche Hörer!'' ("German listeners!" — this is how each of the texts starts) was first published in 1942 by H. Wolff,

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but never reached Germany. A second edition was published in Stockholm in 1945, after the end of the war. This edition included the addresses Mann had given up to November 8, 1945.

Edition

*Thomas Mann: ''Deutsche Hörer! Radiosendungen nach Deutschland aus den Jahren 1940-1945'', 4th edition (

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, 2004) (). 1943 non-fiction books Books by Thomas Mann World War II and the media Alfred A. Knopf books Collections of letters {{Nazi-book-stub