Ruined by the Reich
Subtitle: Memoir of an East Prussian Family, 1916-1945
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780786416158
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; History; Personal narratives; Brandenburg, Christel Weiss,; Weiss family; Germany - History; Military History - World War II; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - Holocaust; Biography/Autobiography; World War, 1939-1945; Germany; Europe - Germany; Military - World War II; 1934-; National socialism; Personal Memoirs; 1918-1933
Description: "This is the story of the Weiss family in East Prussia from World War I to the end of World War II, told from the point of view not of the victors but of the vanquished. Beginning with the good citizenship trap Hitler set for law-abiding families, the book describes how Germany first prospered and then fell to ruin with the Third Reich. The people traded their freedoms for a national security that quickly turned to tyranny, with swift consequences for "disobedience."

"Like Christel's brothers (soldiers and members of Hitler's Youth), propaganda-fed children all over the Reich believed the highly idealized depiction of their roles and of their nation's victims."--Jacket.