This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers ? in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Sch©Þfer, Emil Strau©, B©œrries Freiherr von M©?nchhausen and Rudolf Binding ? it examines the continuities in v©œlkisch-nationalist thought in Germany from c. 1890 into the post-war period and the ways in which v©œlkisch-nationalists identified themselves in opposition to four successive German regimes: the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic.