Surviving Hitler: Choices, Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich - Brossura

Lebor, Adam; Boyes, Roger

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0671022636 ISBN 13: 9780671022631

Casa editrice: Pocket Books, 2002

Riassunto

The authors here provide a radical examination of the relationship between the Nazi Party and those it sought to seduce and control. There are some historians who argue that the Gestapo regime was a reign of terror that forced German citizens and others to collaborate with the Nazi rulers. Other historians argue that the German people were programmed for genocide by centuries of anti-Semitism. The authors here believe neither view is correct. They argue that to understand how the Holocaust could have happened the reader and historian need to step back into the heart of daily life in the Third Reich. This book draws on contemporary research and declassified documents to show life for the average citizen, and uncovers examples of protest as well as eager complicity. It examines how many really knew about the extermination camps and ask how ideologically driven was the Holocaust? The text illustrates life in Germany and its conquered territories under the Nazi regime, and gives an explanation of how mass murder could be accepted by a supposedly civilized nation.

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Recensione

'Bursting with insight ... SURVIVING HITLER is a compelling and sophisticated account of life in Nazi Germany ... crammed with new research and illuminating detail' Tom Owen, JEWISH QUARTERLY
'Studded with anecdotes ... Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes are gifted journalists, and have written an informative and readable book about the Third Reich' - LITERARY REVIEW
'Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes impartially reveal the untold stories of everyday moral dilemmas in the Third Reich' - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
'Convincing and chilling' EVENING LEADER
'A capacity to combine brisk writing and a broad, accessible approach with a canny awareness of recent primary research is one of the chief strengths of this book. The other is the diversity and colour of the case studies - ranging from the banal to the scurrilous and grotesque - sensitively analysed by the authors' JEWISH CHRONICLE

L'autore

Adam LeBor writes for the INDEPENDENT and LITERARY REVIEW. He is the author of A HEART TURNED EAST and HITLER'S SECRET BANKERS. Roger Boyes is THE TIMES' German correspondent and the author of THE NAKED PRESIDENT, THE PRIEST WHO HAD TO DIE and HARD ROAD TO MARKET.

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• Editore: Pocket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0671022636
• ISBN 13: 9780671022631
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304