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persecution. Knopf told the reporter: "There's not a German writer left in
Germany who is worth thinking about. The gifted writers and enterprising publishers who had any independence have all left Germany. Only Nazi writers and publishers remain. They write and publish to please the Nazi
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with Alfred Knopf in New York City in 1915. She learned the mechanics of printing and publishing and went on to become a highly influential editor. Knopf is credited with designing the
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by the French government in 1949, and became an
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