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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This has to be one of the most psychologically moving & disturbing books I have ever read. The sheer enormity of the atrocities and the duration of the war make this an intense read. The audiobook was excellent. These people accepted deceptive propaganda until it changed their minds and their society. From the decimation of Poland onward most of the Germans in the book thought they were fighting in a defensive nationalistic War against Jewry. The details of the wars shows a level of barbarism that is beyond my comprehension. Big book. Good book. Takes you thru the war inside Germany and in the West and in the East. The powerful addition to the narrative is the inclusion of letters and diary entries of soldiers and their friends and families. Also, the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (the SD) continuously collected gossip, rumors, jokes, talk on the street. Those reports are included, too. It is all fascinating and powerful. Especially the people that are followed thruout the book - some change and come to see the lies and horribleness. Some continue with their blind hopefulness and faith in their Leader. Timely. no reviews | add a review
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"Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, school-teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of people who embarked on, continued, and fought to the end, a brutal war of conquest and genocide"-- No library descriptions found. |
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These people accepted deceptive propaganda until it changed their minds and their society. From the decimation of Poland onward most of the Germans in the book thought they were fighting in a defensive nationalistic War against Jewry.
The details of the wars shows a level of barbarism that is beyond my comprehension. ( )