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They Thought They Were Free
- The Germans, 1933-45
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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They Thought They Were Free
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Publisher's Summary
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 10 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-11-03
Excellent*
*You have to be constantly aware of the year in which it is written. And hearing a British voice actor refer to himself as an American was peculiar.
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- Eilisin
- 2021-04-10
an unclear message
this book gave me little value. the 10 Germans are all from the same village. it's not a story of the war. it's a bit more of a story about the village. but even that story is fragmented. does this book answer the question of why the Germans did what they did? no, no it does not.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Emilie Dionne
- 2023-01-16
Not much information about the rise of National Socialism… which is the point of the book…
The book has an interesting premise but lacks depth. The first half feels like a narrated round table conversation about pre-WWII Germans. The second half of the book starts off with a bit more information about the life and times of the German people in that era but then shifts quickly to post WWII which is not why I picked up the book in the first place…
The narrator is trying his best to keep the material alive but a man with a thick British accent speaking German in a German accent, didn’t flow well and was hard to understand.
Interesting listen but a pass nontheless.
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