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What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany - Softcover

Johnson, Eric A; Reuband, Karl-Heinz

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Synopsis

An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?

“A very important book.” —Financial Times

 
The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? 

In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced in the Third Reich, What We Knew offers answers to these most important questions. Combining the expertise of Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband, What We Knew is the most startling oral history yet of everyday life in the Third Reich.
 

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About the Author

Eric A. Johnson is professor emeritus at Central Michigan University. He served as a research professor at the University of Cologne from 1989 to 1995, was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1995 to 1996, and was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study from 1998 to 1999. He is also the author of Nazi Terror and Urbanization and Crime. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
 
Karl-Heinz Reuband is professor of sociology, emeritus, at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He lives in Cologne, Germany.

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