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Gracefully translated and generously introduced by Robert Schwartzwald, Daniel Guerin's "The Brown Plague" is a major document of its time. Though it offers a glimpse into a Left political culture that has, today, largely receded from view, the book's significance is far from merely commemorative. In its utopian political commitments and suffused homoerotic tonalities, "The Brown Plague" imagines a future that could, perhaps, be ours as well."...

In 1932 and 1933, during the months surrounding the Nazi seizure of power, Daniel Guérin, then a young French journalist, made two trips through Germany. The Brown Plague, translated here into English for the first time, is Guérin’s eyewitness account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the first months of the Third Reich. Originally written for the popular French left press and then revised by the author into book form, The Brown Plague de...