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They Thought They Were Free : The Germans 1933-45
Paperback Edition: 1
First published in 1956 this book was a finalist for the National Book Award. 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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Pages : 378
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Publication date : 2017-12
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Social & Cultural History, Ethnic Studies, Jewish Studies