Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner, Oliver Pretzel (Translator)
Bibliographic Data
STATUS: ON WISHLIST| Pages Count | 309 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Picador |
| Pub Date | 2000-01-01 |
| Date Archived | N/A |
| Registry ID | 9780312421137 |
Summary
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner''s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars.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.