![]() The acclaimed history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes and its ultimate destruction. These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Their experiences create a remarkable three dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere. Notable in Julia Boyd’s Travelers in the Third Reich, is the accumulation of commentary from travelers, British, American and other European (and one Chinese), that in speaking with Germans, Hitler was well liked by the German people, his Nazi Party was not, anti Semitism as a phenomena existed in pre Hitler Germany, persecution of German Jews before Kristallnacht in November 1938 was. ![]() How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust? Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. ![]() ![]() "Compelling" - Daily Telegraph "Fascinating" - The Spectator The events that took place in Germany between 19 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. ![]()
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