Mayer, Milton,
They thought they were free : the Germans, 1933-45 / Milton Mayer ; with a new afterword by Richard J. Evans. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 (1955). - xii, 378 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm Paperbound book.
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.
9780226525839 022652583X
40028303692
2017027110
1933-1945
National socialism.--NAZI party.
National characteristics, German.
Jews--Germany.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Case studies.
DD256.5 / .M39 2017
943.086 May 15
They thought they were free : the Germans, 1933-45 / Milton Mayer ; with a new afterword by Richard J. Evans. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 (1955). - xii, 378 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm Paperbound book.
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.
9780226525839 022652583X
40028303692
2017027110
1933-1945
National socialism.--NAZI party.
National characteristics, German.
Jews--Germany.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Case studies.
DD256.5 / .M39 2017
943.086 May 15