LEADER 04029nam 2200613 450 001 9910163944203321 005 20210209184121.0 010 $a1-5416-9761-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000983890 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5368895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6929974 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6929974 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000983890 100 $a20180612d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn iron wind $eEurope under Hitler /$fPeter Fritzsche 210 1$aNew York :$cBasic Books,$d[2016] 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages) 311 $a0-465-05774-8 311 $a0-465-09655-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTalk 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. 330 2 $a"Unlike World War I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front, World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the war effort, and in the end, the vast majority of the war's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe--the war's deadliest killing ground--experienced forced labor, deportation, mass executions, and genocide. As direct targets of and witnesses to violence, rather than far-off bystanders, civilians were forced to face the war head on. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, fiction, and other first-person accounts, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche redefines our understanding of the civilian experience of war across the vast territory occupied and threatened by Nazi Germany. Amid accumulating horrors, ordinary people across Europe grappled with questions of faith and meaning, often reaching troubling conclusions. World War II exceeded the human capacity for understanding, and those men and women who lived through it suspected that language could not adequately register the horrors they saw and experienced. But it nevertheless prompted an outpouring of writing, as people labored to comprehend and piece thoughts into philosophy. Their broken words are all we have to reconstruct how contemporaries saw the war around them, how they failed to see its terrible violence in full, and how they attempted to translate the destruction into narratives. Carefully reading these testimonies as no historian has done before, Fritzsche's groundbreaking work sheds new light on the most violent conflict in human history, when war made words inadequate, and the inadequacy of words heightened the devastation of war"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aViolence$xSocial aspects$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWar and society$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivilians in war$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects$zEurope 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zEurope 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xOccupied territories 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, European 607 $aEurope$xSocial conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aViolence$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aWar and society$xHistory 615 0$aCivilians in war$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xOccupied territories. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a940.534 686 $aHIS037070$2bisacsh 700 $aFritzsche$b Peter$f1959-$01098532 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163944203321 996 $aAn iron wind$92804036 997 $aUNINA