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They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (1966, Trade Paperback)
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"They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer is a 368-page trade paperback textbook published by the University of Chicago Press in 1966. This book, which falls under the subject areas of history, social science, and military/world war II, explores the experiences of the Germans during this time period. It delves into topics such as European history, sociology, and Jewish studies, providing a comprehensive look at the events and perspectives of the time. This advanced-level textbook is suitable for adult education and further education levels, making it a valuable resource for those interested in this historical period.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226511928
ISBN-139780226511924
eBay Product ID (ePID)109880
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThey Thought They Were Free : the Germans, 1933-45
SubjectEurope / Germany, Military / World War II, Sociology / General, Jewish
Publication Year1966
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
AuthorMilton Mayer
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight15.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN55-005137
ReviewsWriting as a liberal American journalist of German descent and Jewish religious persuasion Mr. Mayer aims--and in the opinion of this reviewer largely succeeds--at scrupulous fairness and unsparing honesty. It is this that gives his book its muscular punch., Once again the German problem is at the center of our politics. No better, or more humane, or more literate discussion of its underlying nature could be had than in this book., Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening., It is a fascinating story and a deeply moving one. And it is a story that should make people pause and think--think not only about the Germans, but also about themselves.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal943.086
Edition DescriptionReprint
Table Of ContentPart I. Ten Men Kronenberg November 9, 1638 November 9, 1938 1. Ten Men 2. The Lives Men Lead 3. Hitler and I 4. "What Would You Have Done?" 5. The Joiners 6. The Way To Stop Communism 7. "We Think with Our Blood" 8. The Anti-Semitic Swindle 9. "Everybody Knew." "Nobody Knew" 10. "We Christians Had the Duty" 11. The Crimes of the Losers 12. "That's the Way We Are" 13. But Then It Was Too Late 14. Collective Shame 15. The Furies: Heinrich Hildebrandt 16. The Furies: Johann Kessler 17. The Furies: Furor Teutonicus Part II. The Germans Heat Wave 18. There Is No Such Thing 19. The Pressure Cooker 20. "Peoria Über Alles" 21. New Boy in the Neighborhood 22. Two New Boys in the Neighborhood 23. "Like God in France" 24. But a Man Must Believe in Something 25. Push-Button Panic Part III. Their Cause and Cure The Trial November 9, 1948 26. The Broken Stones 27. The Liberators 28. The Re-educators and Re-educated 29. The Reluctant Phoenix 30. Born Yesterday 31. Tug of Peace 32. "Are We the Same as the Russians?" 33. Marx Talks to Michel 34. The Uncalculated Risk Acknowledgments
SynopsisFirst published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name "Kronenberg." "These ten men were not men of distinction," Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."--from Chapter 13, "But Then It Was Too Late"
LC Classification NumberDD256.5
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- Oct 22, 2019
Germans after World War II sounded remarkably similar to what we hear today in America.
Milton Mayer, a German-born Jew raised in America, moved to Kronenberg, a typical small German town, in the early 1950s and befriended the locals, without telling them his ethnicity. They tell a story that jibes with Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" statement. Their time under the Nazis was a happy one, though it must be said that Kronenberg was not bombed by the Allies. Mayer personally liked the ten men he focused on in this book, who were generally solid and religious citizens, but they continued to denigrate Jews and felt they contributed to their own fate. In today's political atmosphere, you can't help but make comparisons between 1930s Germans and modern American conservatives, because many of their opinions about Hitler, Christianity, and German patriotism sound remarkably similar to what we hear today on AM talk radio and Fox News.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 23, 2020
Interesting book
Great so farVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jan 05, 2017
They Thought They Were Free
Published in 1959 but on a par with Orwell's 1984 - Prophetic!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
