StudienVerlag - Oapen

An other German Jew who on the strength of his utter unscrupulousness and
sacrifice of human dignity is becoming rather a winner than a victim of the Nazi rule.
All these people are, each for his special purpose, on their journey to Palestine.
Before reaching the frontier they meet with a situation which isolates them from
the assets and amenities, real or imaginatory, of their life among the people of the
earth, and makes them face death desert – at the same spot where some five thousand
year previously some of their ancestors had equally to face death and desert
on an other journey to Palestine. […]
Georg(e) M. Höllering – Österreichischer Filmproduzent und Drehbuchautor, ab 1937
Exil in Großbritannien. Siehe dazu auch: THE FACE OF THE DEVIL (1941)
„Das Grosse Elend“ ist der Arbeitstitel von „An den Wassern von Babylon“, unter dem
auch der Züricher Humanitas-Verlag Anfang 1938 in der Ausgabe von „Eine Frau hat
geschrien“ den Roman angekündig hat.
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