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Paul Thomas Mann was a German author who wrote novels, epics, and short stories. He was also a social critic, essayist, philanthropist, and a 1929 Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. Mann was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1875 to a highly respected family that was also part of the commercial elite of the city. He was the second of five children of Senator Thomas Heinrich Mann. His family was represented in his first and very successful novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became influential German authors.In 1933, when Adolf Hitler gained power, Thomas Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II officially broke out in 1939, he moved to the

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