ABSTRACT

H. G. Fiedler and L. A. Willoughby, the most important officers of the English Goethe Society during the years 1933 to 1945, pursued the goal of peace through stronger Anglo-German ties, which led Willoughby to gestures of support for the Nazi regime. His Jewish colleague William Rose criticized him for inviting poet and Nazi literary official Hans Friedrich Blunck to an EGS reading. Willoughby then channelled his appeasement efforts into his new periodical, German Life and Letters, before abandoning rapprochement in 1937–38. Though he gave a platform to Jewish émigré writers in PEGS before and after the war, and broke with the revanchist writer Hans Grimm, he supported Blunck’s denazification and positively reviewed Blunck’s untrustworthy memoirs.

摘要

HG Fiedler 和 LA Willoughby 是 1933 年至 1945 年英国歌德协会最重要的官员，他们通过加强英德关系来追求和平目标，这促使威洛比做出支持纳粹政权的姿态。他的犹太同事威廉·罗斯批评他邀请诗人和纳粹文学官员汉斯·弗里德里希·布伦克参加 EGS 阅读。在 1937-38 年放弃和解之前，威洛比随后将他的绥靖努力引入了他的新期刊《德国生活与文学》。虽然他在给一个平台，犹太流亡作家的PEG在战争之前和之后，并与复仇作家汉斯·格林爆发，他支持布隆克的铲除纳粹化和积极评论。布隆克的不可信的回忆录。