A village in the Third Reich : how ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of fascism / Julia Boyd & Angelika Patel.

London : Elliott & Thompson, 2022.

459 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people's lives but their minds. By putting one village under the microscope, this book evocatively portrays the momentous period of Nazism in Germany. Why did Germans respond to Hitler in the manner they did? How did their attitudes change as the war progressed? And when all hope was gone and their country lay in ruins, how did they pick themselves up and start again?

9781783966639 (pbk)

943.3'7
943.37

English

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