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They Thought They Were Free – The Germans, 1933–45 The Germans, 1933-45

Name: They Thought They Were Free – The Germans, 1933–45
Author: Mayer

Auteur: Mayer

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Mayer Richard J. Evans

Engels
Paperback
9780226525839
28 november 2017
384 pagina's

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When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg. That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He's right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did what we've seen over decades is that any time people, across the political spectrum, start to feel that freedom is threatened, the book experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest. And that interest has never been more prominent or potent than what we've seen in the past year. Mayer, an American journalist of German descent, traveled to Germany in 1935 in attempt to secure an interview with Hitler. He failed, but what he saw in Berlin chilled him. He quickly determined that Hitler wasn't the person he needed to talk to after all. Nazism, he realized, truly was a mass movement; he needed to talk with the average German. He found ten, and 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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 november 2017
Aantal pagina's: 384
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Mayer
Tweede Auteur: Richard J. Evans
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Chicago Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 217 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 626 g

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EAN: 9780226525839

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