Sebastian Striegel
@striegse.bsky.social
Sprecher für Innen- und Rechtspolitik, Energiepolitik und Digitalisierung bei @gruenefraktionlsa.bsky.social. Katholischer Christ. Politik mit Haltung. he/his
🌈 nonazis 🚦 Autokorrektur 🚲 Fahrradbus
🌈 nonazis 🚦 Autokorrektur 🚲 Fahrradbus
Reposted by Sebastian Striegel
Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers to warn the world about Hitler and Nazism, and had been relentless in his verbal attacks on them, so the Nazis ransacked his Berlin apartment (in his absence) immediately in '33
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
![To the occupant of my house on Mahlstrasse in Berlin:
I do not know your name or how you came into possession of my house. I only know that two years ago the police of the Third Reich seized all my property, personal and real, and handed it over to the stock company formed by the Reich for the confiscation of the properties of political adversaries (chairman of the board: Minister Goering). I learned this through a letter from the mortgagees. They explained to me that under the laws of the Third Reich, confiscations of property belonging to political opponents concern themselves only with credit balances. Although my house and my bank deposits, which had also been confiscated, greatly exceeded in value the amount of the mortgage, I would be obliged to continue the payment of interests on the mortgage, as well as my German taxes, from whatever money I might earn abroad. Be that as it may, one thing is certain: you, Mr. X, are occupying my house and I, in the opinion of the German judges, must pay the costs.
How do you like my house, Mr. X? Do you find it pleasant to live in? Did the silver-grey carpeting in the upper rooms suffer while the SA-men were looting? My concierge sought safety in these upper rooms, as, I being in America at the time, the gentlemen had decided to take it out on him. The carpet is very delicate, and red is a strong color, hard to clean out. The rubber tiling in the stairway was also not primarily designed with the boots of SA-men in mind. Should it have suffered too badly, I recommend you contact the Baake company; the flooring is the same as on the staircases of the “Europa” and the “Bremen,”[1] and this is the company which delivered it.
Have you any notion why I had the semi-enclosed roof terrace built? Mrs. Feuchtwanger and I used it for our morning exercise. Would you mind seeing to it that the pipes of the shower don’t freeze?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreidtql7l2iul5yyrgtxuuovnz2rlkdvrjhlh7rj3c46bpz6xlkt32m@jpeg)
![Doesn’t it sometimes seem odd to you that you should be living in my house? Your “Führer” is not generally considered a friend of Jewish literature. Isn’t it, therefore, astounding that he should have such a strong predilection for the Old Testament? I myself have heard him quote with much fervor, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” (by which he may have meant “A confiscation of property for literary criticism”). And now, through you, he has fulfilled a prophecy of the Old Testament—the saying, “Thou shalt dwell in houses thou hast not builded.”
Don’t let my house get into a mess, Mr. X. Building and furnishing it has taken Mrs. Feuchtwanger and myself a lot of effort. Running and maintaining it won’t take a lot of effort. Please take care of it a little. I’m also saying this in your own interest. Your “Führer” has promised that his rule will last a thousand years: thus I’m assuming that you will soon be in the position of negotiating with me concerning the house’s return.
With many good wishes for our house,
Lion Feuchtwanger
P.S. By the way, do you agree that my statement that your “Führer” writes bad German is disproved by the fact that you are sitting in my house?
Notes
[1] The “Europe” and the “Bremen” were luxury ocean liners.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreifgcao76ei76yysmpkdgajuyisquawyr7wcctfnvlxfgqrfoq6d5m@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers to warn the world about Hitler and Nazism, and had been relentless in his verbal attacks on them, so the Nazis ransacked his Berlin apartment (in his absence) immediately in '33
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
Ich will in diesem Zusammenhang auf die Grenzen der parlamentarischen Kontrolle/Formatierung der (Zivil-)Gesellschaft hinweisen. Die Maßstäbe, die das Landesverfassungsgericht Sachsen-Anhalt da entwickelt hat, scheinen mir hilfreich: verfassungsgericht.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
January 28, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Ich will in diesem Zusammenhang auf die Grenzen der parlamentarischen Kontrolle/Formatierung der (Zivil-)Gesellschaft hinweisen. Die Maßstäbe, die das Landesverfassungsgericht Sachsen-Anhalt da entwickelt hat, scheinen mir hilfreich: verfassungsgericht.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
Sehr schade. Ich habe Sie hier gerne gelesen, auch in Fällen, wo ich Dinge anders sah.
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Sehr schade. Ich habe Sie hier gerne gelesen, auch in Fällen, wo ich Dinge anders sah.