"He was no follower of the regime, but, as the title of Cuomo’s investigation Career at the Cost of Compromise suggests and his investigation then shows, had certainly not sung songs 'which go against expectations.' His 'songs' had met them rather: numerous pieces of light, folksy entertainment, as demanded by the authorities, precisely to 'lull' the German audience 'asleep.'" Axel Vieregg on Gunter Eich • Berlin Review of Books

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