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10 Jun 2026

I would say, overall, the corpus of literature is well worth looking at because people lived in a dictatorship in a different world and tried to find ways of expressing that, even though the censorship was in place.

“I would say, overall, the corpus of literature is well worth looking at because people lived in a dictatorship in a different world and tried to find ways of expressing that, even though the censorship was in place.”

Speaker: Katja Hoyer
Episode: Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

What Katja said.

I would say, overall, the corpus of literature is well worth looking at because people lived in a dictatorship in a different world and tried to find ways of expressing that, even though the censorship was in place.