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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.
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
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.
pickThis #nonfictionread was beyond heartbreaking. But, it's also as odd as it sounds an empowering read as this woman unpacked her history and found her personal history and truth.
pickOtto Dietrich became Hitler's press chief in 1933 & worked for him up until 1945. Throughout the lead-up to & duration of WWII, Dietrich accepted what he was told on the surface of things but it wasn't until after the end of the war that he wrote a memoir which criticised Hitler & he requested it was published after his death.
There's a few scant words about the concentration camps & the millions of deaths, & little reflection about (continued)
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pickRead for a WWII class. This book highlights the terror that characterized even the average Germans‘ experiences during Nazi rule. The magnitude of even the smallest of resistance in the face of potential execution and surviving to tell the tale is a major feat.
pickVery informative accounts of Hitler's Germany before the war and visitors who thought he was progressive and great.
I started this one that I found in the Salt Lake City Public Library downtown. Could not resist it.
so-soThis has a lot of information on various parts of what it was like in the Third Reich of Germany, such as in Education, the Arts, Community, etc., but it is not an easy read. It's very methodical and it took me awhile to get through it. Still valuable if you want to understand that era. It did skip some important things like the Wannsee Conference. A professor at BYU once told me it was recommended.
