A Village in the Third Reich

How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

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<p><strong>___________<br><br>A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022<br><br>A <em>New Statesman</em> Book of the Year 2022<br><br>'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle... than you will by reading a shelf of wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.'</strong><em>Daily Mail</em><br><br><strong>'An utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.'</strong><em>The Times</em><br><br><strong>'Boyd is an outstanding micro-historian.'</strong><em>iNews</em><br><br>___________<br><strong>Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf - a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere.<br><br>Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime.</strong><br><br>From the author of the <em>Sunday Times</em> bestselling <em>Travellers in the Third Reich</em> comes <em>A Village in the Third Reich:</em> an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy and despair.<br><br>Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life - foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members; village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived - and those who didn't; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged 'not worth living'.<br><br>This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams - but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs.<br><br><strong>These are the stories of ordinary lives a

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EAN

9781783966639

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 127 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Elliott & Thompson Ltd