From the detective novel under Nazism to contemporary crime fiction

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Prolific under the Third Reich, the German detective novel – Krimi – is increasingly the target of censorship, the regime seeking to impose the «good German detective novel». The detective novel then becomes an ideological battlefield invested by Jewish writers or resistance fighters.
Today, the greatest authors of the genre choose to place their characters in this same historical context. Is it about challenging history or revisiting it through new approaches?

As part of the Holocaust Memorial Book Fair.

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