Neighborhood of Los Angeles which became the place of exile for a number of prominent refugees from Nazi Germany. In the early 1940s, Pacific Palisades and neighboring communities were home to some of the most important artists and thinkers of German modernism, among them Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Berthold Brecht, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, Arnold Schönberg, Alfred Döblin, and Fritz Lang. In this way, the sma…