Voices from the Third Reich: An Oral History - Hardcover

Johannes Steinoff; Peter Pechel; Dennis Showalter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895267667 ISBN 13: 9780895267665

Publisher: Gateway Books, 1989

Synopsis

Highly recommended. --Library Journal

About this title

About the Author:

Johannes Steinhoff (General, U.S. Army) served as chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Peter Pechelhas been a foreign correspondent for German television. Dennis Showalter has served as guest lecturer at Yale University, the Naval War College, and the Air War College. Peter Pechelhas been a foreign correspondent for German television. Dennis Showalter has served as guest lecturer at Yale University, the Naval War College, and the Air War College.

From Publishers Weekly:

The result of a collaborative editorial effort by two German veterans of WW II and an American college professor, these recollections from more than 150 Germans cover a wide range of experience, civilian and military, during the Nazi era. Many of those interviewed, who were children or teenagers when Hitler came to power, speak frankly about the allure of National Socialism and of the "adaptations" forced on them, internally and externally, during the war. As the editors point out, heroism and self-sacrifice are evident in many of the statements, but so are egoism and self- deception. The book challenges certain assumptions common among non-Germans: that most citizens of the Third Reich were fully aware of the crimes perpetrated by the regime; that the survivors of that generation are conscious of a burden of guilt; and finally that older Germans are happy to forget the war. The men and women included here recall their attitudes and behavior in compelling and painful detail.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gateway Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0895267667
• ISBN 13: 9780895267665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512