04029nam 2200613 450 991016394420332120210209184121.01-5416-9761-8(CKB)3710000000983890(MiAaPQ)EBC5368895(MiAaPQ)EBC4786029(MiAaPQ)EBC6929974(Au-PeEL)EBL6929974(EXLCZ)99371000000098389020180612d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAn iron wind Europe under Hitler /Peter FritzscheNew York :Basic Books,[2016]1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages)0-465-05774-8 0-465-09655-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Talk in Wartime -- Hitler Means War! -- A New Authoritarian Age? -- Living with the Germans -- Journey to Russia -- The Fate of the Jews -- The Life and Death of God -- The Destruction of Humanity -- Broken Words."Unlike World War I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front, World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the war effort, and in the end, the vast majority of the war's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe--the war's deadliest killing ground--experienced forced labor, deportation, mass executions, and genocide. As direct targets of and witnesses to violence, rather than far-off bystanders, civilians were forced to face the war head on. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, fiction, and other first-person accounts, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche redefines our understanding of the civilian experience of war across the vast territory occupied and threatened by Nazi Germany. Amid accumulating horrors, ordinary people across Europe grappled with questions of faith and meaning, often reaching troubling conclusions. World War II exceeded the human capacity for understanding, and those men and women who lived through it suspected that language could not adequately register the horrors they saw and experienced. But it nevertheless prompted an outpouring of writing, as people labored to comprehend and piece thoughts into philosophy. Their broken words are all we have to reconstruct how contemporaries saw the war around them, how they failed to see its terrible violence in full, and how they attempted to translate the destruction into narratives. Carefully reading these testimonies as no historian has done before, Fritzsche's groundbreaking work sheds new light on the most violent conflict in human history, when war made words inadequate, and the inadequacy of words heightened the devastation of war"--Provided by publisher.ViolenceSocial aspectsEuropeHistory20th centuryWar and societyEuropeHistory20th centuryCivilians in warEuropeHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945Social aspectsEuropeWorld War, 1939-1945EuropeWorld War, 1939-1945Occupied territoriesWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, EuropeanEuropeSocial conditions20th centuryElectronic books.ViolenceSocial aspectsHistoryWar and societyHistoryCivilians in warHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945Social aspectsWorld War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945Occupied territories.World War, 1939-1945940.534HIS037070bisacshFritzsche Peter1959-1098532MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910163944203321An iron wind2804036UNINA