What German author had to flee from Germany in 1932, because the Nazi Party did not like his popular and best-selling, but not very war-minded novel, about the Western Front in World War One?

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Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German author, most famous today for his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In 1931, after finishing The Road Back (Der Weg zurück) Remarque left Germany. He bought a villa in Porto Ronco in Switzerland and lived both there and in France until 1939, when he left Europe for the United States of America with his wife and they became naturalized citizens of the United States in 1947. In 1933, the Nazis banned and burned Remarque's works, and issued propaganda stating that he was a descendant of French Jews and that his real last name was Kramer, a Jewish-sounding name, his original name spelled backwards. This is still listed in some biographies despite the complete lack of evidence. Furthermore, despite contrary evidence, the Nazis claimed that he had never seen active service during WWI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque Jan 06 10, 9:24 AM