They thought they were free : the Germans, 1933-45 /
Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986.
They thought they were free : the Germans, 1933-45 / Milton Mayer. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1966. - xxii, 346 pages ; 21 cm. - Phoenix books . - Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) .
Part I. Ten men. Kronenberg -- 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 know." "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 Hilebrandt -- The furies: Johann Kessler -- The furies: furor teutonicus -- Part II. The Germans. Heat wave -- There is no such thing -- The pressure cookers -- "Peoria über 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 -- Part III. The cause and cure. The trial -- 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 talks to Michel -- The uncalculated risk.
Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their implications for modern Germany.
9780226511924 0226511928
002436691 Uk
National socialism.
Jews--Germany.
National characteristics, German.
National characteristics, German.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Case studies.
Germany--Social conditions--Case studies.
They thought they were free : the Germans, 1933-45 / Milton Mayer. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1966. - xxii, 346 pages ; 21 cm. - Phoenix books . - Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) .
Part I. Ten men. Kronenberg -- 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 know." "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 Hilebrandt -- The furies: Johann Kessler -- The furies: furor teutonicus -- Part II. The Germans. Heat wave -- There is no such thing -- The pressure cookers -- "Peoria über 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 -- Part III. The cause and cure. The trial -- 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 talks to Michel -- The uncalculated risk.
Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their implications for modern Germany.
9780226511924 0226511928
002436691 Uk
National socialism.
Jews--Germany.
National characteristics, German.
National characteristics, German.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Case studies.
Germany--Social conditions--Case studies.