"Verbrennt mich!" (Burn me!): two days after the infamous 10 May 1933 book burning at German universities, Oskar Maria Graf's enraged open-letter protest in the Vienna Arbeiterzeitung to the new Nazi regime carried the name of this Bavarian writer around the world via international news service. Graf's eloquent demand that his books not be included among the Third Reich's sanctioned "Blut- und Bodenliteratur" (blood and soil literature) is characteristic of this writer, whose works and life are full of conviction. Under threat of death in Germany, Graf was already in Viennese exile when he read that only one of his novels, Wir sind Gefangene: Ein Bekenntnis aus diesem Jahrzehn (1927; translated as Prisoners All, 1928), had been condemned. Only after publication of his "Verbrennt mich!" letter was his entire oeuvre granted a special conflagration at the University of Munich. The Nazi propaganda machine, virtually drained of major contemporary literature, had been forced...