They thought they were free
Subtitle: the Germans, 1933-45
By: Milton Mayer ; with a new afterword by Richard J. Evans
Contributors: Evans, Richard J., writer of afterward
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780226525839
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social conditions; German National characteristics; Case studies; Jews; National socialism
Description: Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their implications for modern Germany.
Notes: Originally published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1955.
Table of contents: title: Ten men; title: The lives men lead; title: Hitler and I; title: "What would you have done?"; title: The joiners; title: The way to stop communism; title: "We think with our blood"; title: The anti-semitic swindle; title: "Everybody knew." "Nobody knew"; title: "We Christians had the duty"; title: The crimes of the losers; title: "That's the way we are"; title: But then it was too late; title: Collective shame; title: The furies: Heinrich Hilderbrandt; title: The furies: Johann Kessler; title: The furies: furor teutonicus; title: There is no such thing; title: Pressure cooker; title: "Peoria uber alles"; title: New boy in the neighborhood; title: Two new boys in the neighborhood; title: "Like God in France"; title: But a man must believe in something; title: Push-button panic; title: The broken stones; title: The liberators; title: The re-educators re-educated; title: The reluctant phoenix; title: Born yesterday; title: Tug of peace; title: "Are we the same as the Russians?"; title: Marx talks to Michel; title: The uncalculated risk.