Bibliograph

Defying Hitler, a memoir, Sebastian Haffner : translated by Oliver Pretzel

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Defying Hitler, a memoir, Sebastian Haffner : translated by Oliver Pretzel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Defying Hitler

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Sebastian Haffner : translated by Oliver Pretzel

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler's rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices

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