Welcome to Changing Times Press's Latest Publication

We are an independent publisher interested in the connection between the past and our present moment. We are proud of our recent offering–1933: The Shockwave, The Year that Hitler Declared War on Germany's Artists and Intellectuals . 

The year 1933 witnessed the death of democracy. It happens in Germany inside the most most highly educated and most literate nation in the world.  It is not just democracy that dies but civll and human rights are placed under attack and the intellectuals and artists who uphold these values are placed on assassination lists and sent on the run. 1933: The Shockwave, The Year that Hitler Declared War on Germany's Artists and Intellectuals explores the effect of Hitler's draconian laws on many of the Nazi's top targets.--men and women of the caliber of Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht who  feared for their lives as their  houses were ransacked and then confiscated. This is an account of that terrible year--how these gifted authors and artists  survived, how their approach to their work and their philosophies changed during this violent upturning of accepted norms governing civil society helps us understand our own times. 

1933 saw not only relentless propaganda that attacked leading  scientists, and artists but  also established the first concentration camp for political prisoners,  Dachau.  1933 is also the year when anti-semitism becomes part of government policy and the outrages against Jews, as well as ‘non-Aryan populations’ happen side by side with assaults on democratic institutions, culture and science. The speed of the events resulted in many  thousands of German citizens either killed and locked up and  many others in exile, including some of the most notable authors and scientists of the 20th century.  

The ascendancy of so many right wing regimes across the world it is time to look at 1933 anew. Why were so many of the warnings these highly articulate men and women ignored? What message did they want to leave behind for posterity. To what extent did their life and work transform the way we currently respond to attacks on human rights? 1933 is only 90 years away from our present --these authors make the realities of that year even closer to that of our own.

You can see a preview copy here: official release January 2023