November 12, 1999

W.E.B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany: a Surprising, Prescient Visitor

By WERNER SOLLORS

Poking around the library last year, I came across a startling article, written in 1937 and published in New York's German-language Staatszeitung und Herold. The article reported comments by W.E.B. Du Bois on his recent half-year trip to Germany. Du Bois in Nazi Germany?

I knew that Du Bois had studied in Berlin from 1892 to 1894. I knew that he had been a lifelong Germanophile. I had also read about his visit to East Germany in 1958, when he received an

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