They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022652583X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening." ---New York Times
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We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. Nazism, he realized, truly was a mass movement; he needed to talk with the average German. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.” That’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did—what we’ve seen over decades is that any time people, across the political spectrum, start to feel that freedom is threatened, the book experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest. He failed, but what he saw in Berlin chilled him. Mayer, an American jour
He wrote for the Progressive, Harper’s, and other outlets.. Milton Mayer (1908–86) was the author of What Can a Man Do? And coauthor of The Revolution in Education