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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

11 Ratings

3.7

Duration
10H 22min
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English
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History

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933–45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name "Kronenberg." "These ten men were not men of distinction," Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis.

© 2017 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781541473805

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Audiobook: 23 May 2017

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