Weimar Express

In October 1941, Joseph Goebbels invited thirty-seven European writers to a month-long seminar—his plan was to create a European Writers’ Union to promote the German vision of the world. Thirty-six men and one woman accepted the invitation and boarded the train to Weimar. Did they know that the next stop after Weimar was Buchenwald? Who were these men, who was the woman? What h...