Hermann Hesse - Wikipedia

On July 2, 1877, Hermann Hesse, the German-Swiss novelist and poet (Nobel Prize in Literature 1946), was born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany (d. 1962). From the article:

"Hesse observed the rise to power of Nazism in Germany with concern. In 1933, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann made their travels into exile, each aided by Hesse. In this way, Hesse attempted to work against Hitler's suppression of art and literature that protested Nazi ideology. Hesse's third wife was Jewish, and he had publicly expressed his opposition to anti-Semitism long before then.[41] Hesse was criticized for not condemning the Nazi party, but his failure to criticize or support any political idea stemmed from his "politics of detachment [...] At no time did he openly condemn (the Nazis), although his detestation of their politics is beyond question."[42] From the end of the 1930s, German journals stopped publishing Hesse's work, and the Nazis eventually banned it."