Hans Fallada

Underappreciated German Author during the Nazi years

            I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a German author by the name of Hans Fallada, who finished his final novel, Every Man Dies Alone, just before he died, so never saw it published. Fallada was born Rudolph Ditzen in 1893 in Griefswald, Germany, and at the age of 16, he was run over by a horse-drawn cart and then kicked in the face by the h…