Man Вђ“ O Nemaдќkoj Republici | Tomas

Delivered in Berlin on October 13, 1922, the speech was a direct response to the rising tide of political violence, most notably the assassination of democratic statesman Walter Rathenau.

To the German right, who had lionized Mann for his anti-democratic wartime writings, this speech felt like "throwing an incendiary bomb into his own house". Tomas Man – O Nemačkoj republici

Mann didn't just adopt liberal talking points; he tried to prove that democracy was actually a deeply German ideal by linking it to traditional Romanticism. What Is German? - The Atlantic Delivered in Berlin on October 13, 1922, the