TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayer,Milton
TI  - They thought they were free: the Germans, 1933-45 
T2  - Phoenix books
SN  - 9780226511924
PY  - 1966///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Germany
KW  - National characteristics, German
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Case studies
N1  - 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
N2  - Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their implications for modern Germany
ER  -