HUMA 1870 Lecture 12: March 1 - King David in Movies
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Huma 1870 march 1st, 2017 david at the movies. Used various pseudonyms and stefan heym is his most popular. With the rise of the nazi, he was able to leave germany and move to america where he became a u. s. citizen where he served as a u. s. army. Socialist veering towards communist therefore disgusted by capitalist us society: west germany: was run by us, france, east germany: communist by soviets. Gdr (ddr): official abbreviations of the country of east germany when it was its own country. German democratic republic (abbreviation in german is ddr) When east germany fell, they found reports and files on the citizens who died therefore they found out who was spying on who: compare to the king david report by heym. Revealed that heym knows everything about the biblical text and needs to be understood as an allegory / critique of the society he lived in.
