Title The devil's captain : Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944 / Allan Mitchell

Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 119 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents The loner -- The road to Paris -- Photograph section I -- Man about town -- Dreaming and musing -- Strange interlude -- Kniebolo and the Nazis -- Photograph section II -- The plot against Hitler -- Telling omissions -- Immediate afterthoughts -- The correspondent -- Photograph section III -- Postscript: Liebe Sophie Summary Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. His service as a military officer during the occupation of Paris, where his principal duty was to mingle with French intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau and with visiting German celebrities like Martin Heidegger, was at the center of disputes concerning his career. Spending more than three years in the French capital, Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Germany. Heer -- Officers -- Biography SUBJECT Germany. Heer fast Subject Soldiers -- Germany -- Biography Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Armed Forces -- Officers Authors, German Intellectual life Soldiers SUBJECT Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098063 Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098066 Paris (France) -- Biography France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051418 Subject France France -- Paris Germany Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 1299777171 9781299777170 0857451154 9780857451156

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