Ein Volk, ein Reich : nine lives under the Nazis /
Hagen, Louis Edmund,1916-
Stroud : Spellmount,
2011.
Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the World War II, having survived not only incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp but also the Battle of Arnhem. He wanted to understand the German people; why had so many welcomed the Nazi Party, and were they now humbled and wiser? Hagen interviewed nine people he had known before the war who represented a wide spectrum of German society. They were an SA officer, a businessman, a doctor, a socialite, a journalist, a professional soldier, an SS wife, a member of the Hitler Youth and a mischling, or half Jew. Four were Nazis, three were collaborators, and two were anti-Nazi. The very fact that none of these people was a high-ranking Nazi official or a survivor of the Holocaust provides an insight into the Third Reich that is a revelation, a record of the German people in the shadow of the swastika.
Originally published in 1951 by Allan Wingate Ltd under the title Follow my leader.
Includes index.
Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the World War II, having survived not only incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp but also the Battle of Arnhem. He wanted to understand the German people; why had so many welcomed the Nazi Party, and were they now humbled and wiser? Hagen interviewed nine people he had known before the war who represented a wide spectrum of German society. They were an SA officer, a businessman, a doctor, a socialite, a journalist, a professional soldier, an SS wife, a member of the Hitler Youth and a mischling, or half Jew. Four were Nazis, three were collaborators, and two were anti-Nazi. The very fact that none of these people was a high-ranking Nazi official or a survivor of the Holocaust provides an insight into the Third Reich that is a revelation, a record of the German people in the shadow of the swastika.
Fritz Muehlebach -- Dr. Franz Wertheim -- Erich Dressler -- Herman Voss -- Werner Harz -- Tassilo von Bogenhardt -- Hildegarde Trutz (nee Koch) -- Claus Furhmann -- Baroness Mausi von Westerode.
World War, 1939-1945