Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym, the bestselling German author, was Hitler’s youngest literary exile. Having fled Nazism, he was soon enough forced to flee McCarthyism, circling back to what had in the meantime become the German Democratic Republic of East Germany. After the West German takeover, Heym ran on the ticket of the Party of Democratic Socialism and was elected to the Bundestag in 1995, entering the very same parliament building he had seen on fire as he fled Germany in 1933. He is the author of over two dozen books in English and German on a wide array of topics, including Nazis in America (1938), Goldsborough (1953) and The King David Report (1973).