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The author determined that his interviewees had fond memories of the Nazi period and did not see Adolf Hitler as evil, and they perceived themselves as having a high degree of personal freedom during Nazi rule, [8] with the exception of the teacher. Additionally, barring said teacher, the subjects still disliked Jewish people. [5]
Italian fascist dictator and Nazi ally Benito Mussolini was also critical of the book, saying that it was "a boring tome that I have never been able to read" and remarking that Hitler's beliefs, as expressed in the book, were "little more than commonplace clichés". [31]
[2]), the book was generally well received (e.g. ″one of the most important books on Nazi Germany that has appeared in recent years″, [3] "This is not just another book about Nazi Germany. It is the most significant attempt yet made at scholarly and painstaking analysis, based almost exclusively upon German sources, of the background ...
Plaque at Bebelplaz commemorating Nazi book burning, 10 May 1933. Among the thousands of books burned on Berlin's Opernplatz in 1933, following the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, were works by one of the most iconic individuals ever to write in the German language, the German Jewish Romantic poet Heinrich Heine (1797–1856).
Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. Prologue This book tells a story that will not happen again, because the state I lived in for thirty-five years ceased to exist in 1990.
The book details the beginning of Hitler's regime; documenting SA violence against union members and leftists, and also it also mentions the Sonnenburg concentration camp which was used to imprison political opponents for their “own” protection under the so-called protective custody scheme.
The book has an introduction by the philosopher Ayn Rand, who describes it as "the first book by an Objectivist philosopher other than myself". Rand credited Peikoff with identifying "the cause of Nazism —and the ominous parallels between the intellectual history of Germany and of the United States".
At the end Halder not only becomes a member of the Nazi party but also plays a direct role in SS book burnings, in euthanasia experiments, in the night of the Broken Glass, and, finally, in Adolf Eichmann's genocide at Auschwitz, where Maurice, the sole source of a Jewish perspective in the play and original force of "good" in Halder, ends up ...