Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981
One of Us?
By Alfred Kazin
In life (1797-1856) Heinrich Heine was generally admitted to be a superbly gifted but 'difficult' man. In death his being 'difficult' was so obstinately and even vindictively remembered that Hitler, flushed with triumph when he occupied Paris, ordered that Heine's grave in Montmartre be destroyed. This may have seemed extravagant to many 'internal émigrés' in Germany at the time. But Heine was a problem and embarrassment to many Germans in the 'educated classes.'
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