Author: Milton Mayer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652597X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
They Thought They Were Free
Author: Milton Mayer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652597X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652597X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
Public Opinion
Escape from Vichy
Author: Eric T. Jennings
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674983386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties--with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674983386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties--with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.
Brewing and Liquor Interests and German Propaganda
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Have No Fear the German Is Here
Author: Brianna Hinton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781660871537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
6x9 inch 110 page college ruled matte cover notebook/journal This matte cover notebook is a great funny gift for coworkers, family or friends. A message guaranteed to bring a smile to everybody's face.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781660871537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
6x9 inch 110 page college ruled matte cover notebook/journal This matte cover notebook is a great funny gift for coworkers, family or friends. A message guaranteed to bring a smile to everybody's face.
Brewing and Liquor Interests and German and Bolshevik Propaganda
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brewing industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brewing industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Ecclesiastic and theologian [afterw.] The Ecclesiastic
Admission of German Refugee Children
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Frame of misbehavior
Author: Markjohn Flores
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359377688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359377688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description