They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 193345: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton

Description: They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 193345 by Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans Originally published: Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, Ã1955. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." Thats Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. Hes right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did—what weve 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. And that interest has never been more prominent or potent than what weve seen in the past year. They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Mayers book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name "Kronenberg." "These ten men were not men of distinction," Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil. Author Biography Milton Mayer (1908-86) was the author of What Can a Man Do? And coauthor of The Revolution in Education. He wrote for the Progressive, Harpers, and other outlets. Table of Contents PART 1. TEN MEN Kronenberg November 9, 1638 November 9, 1938 1. Ten Men 2. The Lives Men Lead 3. Hitler and I 4. "What Would You Have Done?" 5. The Joiners 6. The Way to Stop Communism 7. "We Think with Our Blood" 8. The Anti-Semitic Swindle 9. "Everybody Knew" "Nobody Knew" 10. "We Christians Had the Duty" 11. The Crimes of the Losers 12. "Thats the Way We Are" 13. But Then It Was Too Late 14. Collective Shame 15. The Furies: Heinrich Hildebrant 16. The Furies: Johann Kessler 17. The Furies: Furor Teutonicus PART II. THE GERMANS Heat Wave 18. There Is No Such Thing 19. The Pressure Cooker 20. "Peoria Review "Milton Mayers 1955 classic They Thought They Were Free, recently republished with an afterword by the Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans, was one of the first accounts of ordinary life under Nazism. [It is} dotted with humor and written with an improbably light touch.... In 1951, he returned to Germany to find out what had made Nazism possible.... When Mayer returned home, he was afraid for his own country. He felt ... that under the right conditions, he could well have turned out as his German friends did. He learned that Nazism took over Germany not by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler."--Cass Sunstein "The New York Review of Books" (6/28/2018 12:00:00 AM) Review Quote "A timely reminder of how otherwise unremarkable and in many ways reasonable people can be seduced by demagogues and populists." Details ISBN022652583X Author Richard J. Evans Publisher The University of Chicago Press ISBN-10 022652583X ISBN-13 9780226525839 Format Paperback Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle The Germans, 1933-45 Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States DEWEY 943.086 Media Book Short Title They Thought They Were Free Language English Pages 384 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-11-28 NZ Release Date 2017-11-28 US Release Date 2017-11-28 UK Release Date 2017-11-28 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2017-11-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130317028;

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