Thomas Mann denounces mass annihilation of Jews

Source: Uni-Radio Bielefeld Thomas Mann recording a transmission in a BBC studio

Since 1933 the famous German author Thomas Mann has been living in exile and fighting – like Willy Brandt – with the power of the word against Hitler’s Germany. On 27 September 1942 he again turns to the German people in a radio broadcast on London’s BBC denouncing the mass annihilation of European Jews with poison gas in territories occupied by Germany. The broadcast has no apparent effect.