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Defying Hitler: A Memoir

By Oliver Pretzel , Sebastian Haffner

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2003
ISBN
0312421133, 9780312421137
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
909 kB (930513 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
320\0
Time added
2016-05-19 18:42:00
Authors;Arts & Literature;Biographies & Memoirs;Ge

Description

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler's rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices.

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