House of ExileIn 1933, the author and activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south of France and later, in great despair, in Los Angeles. Nelly committed suicide in 1944, and Heinrich died in 1950. Born into a wealthy middle class family in Lbeck, Heinrich was one of the leading representatives of Weimar culture. Nelly was twenty seven years younger, the adopted daughter of a fisherman, and a hostess in a