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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781291603321

Autore

Tubach Frederic C

Titolo

German voices [[electronic resource] ] : memories of life during Hitler's Third Reich / / Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-27795-6

9786613277954

0-520-94888-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Classificazione

NQ 2170

Altri autori (Persone)

TubachSally P <1946-> (Sally Patterson)

Disciplina

943.086

Soggetti

National socialism - Social aspects

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Germany

World War, 1939-1945

Germany History 1933-1945

Germany Social conditions 1933-1945

Germany Social life and customs 20th century

Germany History 1933-1945 Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Jobs and the Olympic Games -- Chapter Two. Jungvolk and Hitler Youth -- Chapter Three. War and the Holocaust -- Chapter Four. In Search of Individuals -- Chapter Five. German Soldiers Write Home -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

What was it like to grow up German during Hitler's Third Reich? In this extraordinary book, Frederic C. Tubach returns to the country of his roots to interview average Germans who, like him, came of age between 1933 and 1945. Tubach sets their recollections and his own memories into a broad historical overview of Nazism-a regime that shaped minds through persuasion (meetings, Nazi Party rallies, the 1936 Olympics, the new mass media of radio and film) and coercion (violence and political suppression). The voices of this long-overlooked population-ordinary people who were neither victims nor perpetrators-reveal the rich complexity of their attitudes and emotions. The book also presents



selections from approximately 80,000 unpublished letters (now archived in Berlin) written during the war by civilians and German soldiers. Tubach powerfully provides new insights into Germany's most tragic years, offering a nuanced response to the abiding question of how a nation made the quantum leap from anti-Semitism to systematic genocide.