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📕The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
It‘s the History major in me.
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#SpringSkies #FallInTitle
📕The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
It‘s the History major in me.
pick#OUABC Once Upon A Book Club Adult March 2018 selection
#TallahasseeSilentBookClub 11 Feb 2024
• 304 pages • first pub 2018 • fiction • historical • informative • tense • 4 Stars
Early 1943: Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty-working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. ⬇️
so-so10 years later, I‘m finished thanks to the audible version. The 1st part was interesting & scary, the 2nd part went really into the weeds and into horrors, the 3rd part was kind of confusing. There is a lot of bureaucracy & a lot of horrible things described, but it‘s very important to see that these evil people aren‘t masterminds, and to know it can happen again. The author met some of the Nazis as a journalist and that was interesting.
3/5 stars
so-soAll about the rampant use of drugs during ww2; this was something which really surprised me.
pickFascinating dive into drug use in the third reich. The general public, the army, and the fuhrer himself were all under considerable chemical influence for much of wwii. Will note this definitely reads at points as if it's been translated (which it has), with a bit less snap and forward motion than I suspect the original german version has. Still very worthwhile!
pickAn American diplomat and his family bear witness to the staggering, dreadful rise of a cult, led by a guy who says: “Only I…”
I‘m just placing this right here.
pickThis is a complex novel that will certainly require some deeper thinking on. An alternative history noir, Hitler's rose to power is thwarted, and he is living in 1930s London as a private eye, going by Wolf. The literary equivalent of a Tarantino movie, full of violence, sex, and racial slurs, this book is not for the faint of heart. The pulpy revisions scenes are interspersed with chapters of an author in a Concentration camp. It's a wild one.
So far this is fascinating, a little disturbing and showcasing a fair bit of political naivety, though as I am listening to this from the future, I may have hindsight‘s glasses on.
pickReview TWs: mentions of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, war,
The memoirs of Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant who worked closely with him & even socialised on occasion. There for Hitler's reactions to the successes & failures of the Reich's military strategies, von Below was even present at the assassination attempt in July 1944. The memoirs are split into years from 1939-1945 when von Below leaves the bunker shortly before the end.
