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They thought they were free :

by Mayer, Milton,
Additional authors: Evans, Richard J., -- writer of afterward.
Published by : The University of Chicago Press, (Chicago :) Physical details: xii, 378 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm ISBN:9780226525839; 022652583X. Year: 2017
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Ten men -- The lives men lead -- Hitler and I -- "What would you have done?" -- The joiners -- The way to stop communism -- "We think with our blood" -- The anti-semitic swindle -- "Everybody knew." "Nobody knew" -- "We Christians had the duty" -- The crimes of the losers -- "That's the way we are" -- But then it was too late -- Collective shame -- The furies: Heinrich Hilderbrandt -- The furies: Johann Kessler -- The furies: furor teutonicus -- There is no such thing -- Pressure cooker -- "Peoria uber alles" -- New boy in the neighborhood -- Two new boys in the neighborhood -- "Like God in France" -- But a man must believe in something -- Push-button panic -- The broken stones -- The liberators -- The re-educators re-educated -- The reluctant phoenix -- born yesterday -- Tug of peace -- "Are we the same as the Russians?" -- Marx talds to Michel -- The uncalculated risk.

Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their implications for modern Germany.

Originally published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 1955.

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