They thought they were free : the Germans, 1933-45 / Milton Mayer ; with a new afterword by Richard J. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Evans, Richard J., writer of afterward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Case studies.

Germany.

National socialism.

National characteristics, German.

Jews--Germany.

Jews.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 378 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780226525839

022652583X

OCLC:

980231546