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A great read Again ! From the wonderful Persephone publishers, a gut wrenching read as we now know the out come & how blindly people were lead away from democracy to tyranny,it‘s truly heart breaking 💔 & scary 😧 that now we seemed to have learnt nothing & are heading down a very polarised society, already happening in USA 🇺🇸 💔😭 why oh why do we “pick”on some fellow humanbeings, what is this stupid hatred of immigration Wer all immigrants

Bookbuyingaddict Why are people so against other fellow humans because they speak a different language, eat different food , look different, have a different religion or sexuality ?? It drives me potty! I just do not understand it, we are all fellow travellers 🧳 on the way to the grave, live & let live, good & bad in all races blah blah. But the angry herd don‘t hear it 😔or even worse people shrug 🤷‍♀️ their shoulders until it‘s too late & you have (edited) 16h

Bookbuyingaddict Narcissistic leaders who are only really interested in themselves . Power, money 💴 and don‘t give a monkeys about you or I or a better society, or we have very weak leadership & governments. If you want to be truly depressed 😔 read This and then watch the film 🎥 Nuremberg with a brilliant Russell Crow and Rami Malek. “The only clue to what man can do,is what man has done” your heart ❤️ will be in your mouth for this book 📖 & film (edited) 16h

AmyG I will never understand the hatred. 16h

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Bookbuyingaddict @AmyG 😔🥰 16h

kspenmoll @AmyG I am just glad dome of us do not understand. Ever. Never. 15h

dabbe @AmyG 🎯🎯🎯 10h

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Rome753

Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis | Volker Ullrich

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Very interesting book. It examines the events of 1923 in the Weimar Republic, the events that lead up to them, and they're effects. While it focuses on the political, economic, and international events, various cultural and personal effects are examined. Definitely recommend.

Amiable My youngest son took a history class in high school that covered the unification of Germany, the Weimar Republic, etc —up to the WWII. The entire point of the class was to answer the question, “Why the Third Reich?” He said it was the most interesting history course he ever had. (edited) 1w

Rome753 @Amiable That sounds very interesting! It sounds very similar to a class I had taken. I'm sure the course your son took was very interesting. 1w

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Leftcoastzen

Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen

#12BooksOf2025 May just wow, Friedrich would be considered a conservative and an aristocrat but his diary is spot on about the evil, stupidity, and cruelty of the rise of the Third Reich. His diary starts in 1936. It was called “One of the most important documents of the Hitler period “ by Hannah Arendt , the New York Review of Books has this lovely edition. One of my top of the year!

TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo I did not know this book existed! Thank you for bringing it to my attention 2w

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Amiable

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Erik Larson

After several complaints because the Men‘s Book Group is the only one at our library that regularly reads nonfiction (and they won‘t let me attend — I‘ve asked), they finally created a “Nonfiction for Fiction Readers” group with the intent of reading narrative nonfiction. Huzzah! 🥳 These are the books for the first quarter.

Ruthiella Nice work! 2w

lil1inblue Huzzah, indeed! 2w

dabbe Poo on the patriarchy! Yay for this BC! 🩵🤍💙 2w

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Amiable @dabbe I‘m actually a bit irritated at the “nonfiction for FICTION readers” label. Like they think they can‘t attract women to a NF group without coaxing them with a promise the books will read like fiction? I‘m over here like “HELLO…” 2w

Scochrane26 That is ridiculous, @Amiable. Glad you‘re trying to change things. BTW, I really liked In the Garden of Beasts because it educated me a lot. It‘s scarily like what‘s been happening now. 2w

Amiable @Scochrane26 I have already read “Beasts” — a few years ago, but I‘m re-reading to be able to discuss in January. You‘re right —it‘s scary how relevant it is to the present! 😖😬 2w

AnnCrystal 🎉📚 Bravo 👏🏼🥳👍🏼📚💝💝💝. 2w

dabbe @Amiable So agree! Do they think we only read Harlequin romances? 🤣 2w

ferskner As a librarian who used to run book clubs, this is so lame! Why didn't they just create a nonfiction book club? Good for you got pushing back, though! 2w

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PaperbackReader

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Erik Larson

“If people knew the truth of history there would never be another Great War.” Truer words never rang like they do right now.

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bibliothecarivs

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home | Nora Krug

Random book from our personal library.

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Rome753

Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis | Volker Ullrich

Up next for reading

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TheBookgeekFrau

The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin | Cioma Sch�nhaus

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While Schönhaus' story of living in Berlin under the Nazi regime as a Jewish document forger is interesting, the writing was just so, so bad.

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#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 1mo

TheAromaofBooks Soooo frustrating when a good story is told poorly!! 1mo

TheBookgeekFrau @TheAromaofBooks Very! 1mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin | Cioma Sch�nhaus

"My survival is the result of events in which the 'law of large numbers' played the major part."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheBookgeekFrau

The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin | Cioma Sch�nhaus

This reading is inspired by The Book of Lost Names that piqued my interest in the people who forged documents in WWII. Shout out to @Offmybookshelf for finding this book and passing it on to me ❤️

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