Title Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, No 12)

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Summary: Letters between 2 Famous Brothers& GOOD GERMANS!!
Review: Two German brothers who came of age in the early 1900's to become world wide literary and historic figures wrote extentively to each other for nearly fifty years. They discuss just about anything two brothers can, and by the Great War were not only literary, but also serious political sibling rivals. Heinrich was the international socialist condemning the war, Thomas supporting the war as an extention of the great German Kultur, of which he was a formost spokesman. They gradually made up, and both expressed their total contempt for the Nazi gang as early as the 1920's. By this time (1929), Thomas won the Nobel Prize, and became the more famous and financially successful. By the late 1930's, they both moved to the USA, where Thomas, by then a huge world wide anti-Nazi figure, supported his older brother spiritually and finanically. A unique book of letters between two great 20th Century GOOD GERMANS, though today Heinrich is relatively unknown, compared to his Olympian younger brother.