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Before WWII, German writer Hans Fallada's novels were international bestsellers, on a par with those of his countrymen Thoman Mann and Herman Hesse. In America, Hollywood even turned his first big novel, Little Man, What Now? into a major motion picture Learning the movie was made by a Jewish producer, however, the Nazis blocked Fallada's work from foreign rights sales, and began to pay him closer attention. When he refused to join the Nazi party he was arrested by the Gestapo--who eventually released him, but thereafter regularly summoned him for "discussions" of his work. However, unlike Mann, Hesse, and others, Fallada refused to flee to safety, even when his British publisher, George Putnam, sent a private boat to rescue him. The pressure took its toll on Fallada, and he resorted increasingly to drugs and alcohol for relief. Not long after Goebbels ordered him to write an anti-Semitic novel he snapped and found himself imprisoned in an asylum for the "criminally insane"--considered a death sentence under Nazi rule. To forestall the inevitable, he pretended to write the assignment for Goebbels, while actually composing three encrypted books--including his tour de force novel The Drinker--in such dense code that they were not deciphered until long after his death. Fallada outlasted the Reich and was freed at war's end. But he was a shattered man. To help him recover by putting him to work, Fallada's publisher gave him the Gestapo file of a simple, working-class couple who had resisted the Nazis. Inspired, Fallada completed Every Man Dies Alone in just twenty-four days. He died in February 1947, just weeks before the book's publication.

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Nightmare in Berlin

By: Hans Fallada, Allan Blunden - translator

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins

Release date: 10-10-17

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
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Alone in Berlin

By: Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann - translator

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins

Release date: 30-09-10

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098 ratings
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Jeder stirbt für sich allein

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Release date: 21-07-11

Language: German

5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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Kleiner Mann - was nun?

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Frank Arnold

Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins

Release date: 17-06-16

Language: German

4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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Lilly and Her Slave

By: Hans Fallada, Alexandra Roesch - translator

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Release date: 22-08-23

Language: English

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Damals bei uns daheim

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt

Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins

Release date: 09-03-18

Language: German

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Geschichten zum Fest

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Jutta Hoffmann

Length: 1 hr and 46 mins

Release date: 21-09-18

Language: German

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Weihnachtsgeschichten

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen, Anna Thalbach

Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins

Release date: 29-10-12

Language: German

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Der Alpdruck

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Release date: 27-02-14

Language: German

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Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt / Die Quangels

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: div.

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Release date: 19-10-15

Language: German

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Ein Mann will nach oben

Die Frauen und der Träumer

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Release date: 27-04-12

Language: German

4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Otto Sander, Dieter Mann, Jörg Schüttauf, Wolfgang Winkler, div.

Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins

Release date: 25-09-16

Language: German

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Jeder stirbt für sich allein

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß, Gudrun Ritter, Henry Hübchen

Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins

Release date: 28-01-15

Language: German

3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Der Trinker

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: André Grotta

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 24-01-20

Language: German

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Der Trinker

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Release date: 23-10-24

Language: German

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Lilly und ihr Sklave

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Jennipher Antoni

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 14-02-23

Language: German

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Geschichten

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Claudia Mau

Length: 57 mins

Release date: 28-04-22

Language: German

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Warnung vor Büchern

Erzählungen und Berichte

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen

Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins

Release date: 07-01-22

Language: German

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Hoppelpoppel, wo bist du

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Stefan Senf

Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 08-04-21

Language: German

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Der eiserne Gustav

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: Dieter Mann

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Release date: 19-12-18

Language: German

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