Her novel Hotel Amerika (1930) is an exposé, as she saw it, of the American dream. In another of her books, Elisabeth, Ein Hitlermädchen (1937), she laid bare the extent to which the Nazis had kidnapped German youth – a theme endlessly reiterated by despairing parents to de Rougemont. ‘Every evening my two children are taken over by the Party,’ the wife of a lawyer complained to him:
