Asylum in The United States
Feuchtwanger was granted political asylum in the United States, settled in Los Angeles in 1941. That same year, he published a memoir of his internment, The Devil in France (Der Teufel in Frankreich). In 1943, Feuchtwanger bought Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, California, and continued to write there until his death in 1958. In 1944, he co-founded the publishing house Aurora-Verlag in New York.
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