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New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Month a stunningly evocative portrait of Hitlers Germany through the people of a single village
Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere Yet even here in the farthest corner of Germany National Socialism sought to control not only peoples lives but also their minds
Drawing on archive material letters interviews and memoirs A Village in the Third Reich is an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under
Hitler of the descent into totalitarianism and of the tragedies that befell all of those touched by Nazism In its pages we meet the Jews who survived and those who didnt the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime and a blind boy whose life was thought not worth living
It is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires of shattered dreams despair and destruction but one in which ultimately human resilience triumphs
These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history
Praise for Travellers in the Third Reich
Compelling Daily Telegraph
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