inner emigration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The choice of some German writers to remain in Nazi Germany despite being opposed to Nazism.

Word forms

inner emigration

Etymology

Coined by Frank Thiess in his response to Thomas Mann's BBC broadcast on the subject of German guilt.

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