Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People: The Rise of Fascism Seen Through the Eyes of Everyday People

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Itin įdomus olimpiados aprašymas. Moterys, juodi atletai ir žydai, žinoma turėjo daug prastesnes sąlygas kai tuo metu baltieji arijai vyrai valgė steikus ir gyveno prabangoje. Hitleris tai pat atsisakė spausti ranką kai laimėjo ne tie.

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W.E.B. DuBois loved Germany. He received much of his education there and revered its history and culture, and appreciated that it had been a respite from the endemic racism he had faced in the United States. Yet on returning after the Nazis had taken over If you have an interest in Weimar and Third Reich history, enjoy histories with views from the bottom—of how real people experience it—or like travel writing, you can’t go wrong with this thoroughly compelling book. Julia Boyd weaves together stories and anecdotes with such skill and fluidity, reading her account seemingly takes no effort whatsoever. It’s like sitting down with a good storyteller. We know where this story will eventually end, but the stories she recounts seem so fresh because they are written from the points of view of the travelers in their times, not “with the clarity of post-war hindsight.” We all know hindsight is 20/20. It’s always been a mystery post WWII why intelligent people could not grasp the threat that NAZI’s posed to the world. Boyd’s book does not give a definitive answer to the question but lays out massive amounts of first person books, letters, diaries and speeches reported by people, primarily British and American, who traveled in Germany beginning just after WWI through the beginning of WWII. Some things that were often noticed by travelers: NAZI’s had improved the economy and were loved by the masses for that. Youth were particularly caught up with the movement. NAZI’s were great at spectacles such as the Olympics, rallies and torchlight parades. Many travelers noted that the NAZI’s emphasized the need for annexing (taking) lands around them that had once been part of Germany or which now were seen as places needed as a buffer to protect the safety of the Fatherland. Sounds like a familiar old excuse today. Knygoje rasit visko. Paprasti turistai, menininkai, mokslininkai, politikai, studentai, kvakeriai, rašytotojai. Vieni labai stipriai prijaučiantys kiti bandantys nesivelti į poliką ir naiviomis akimis ignoruojantys kas ne taip. Remiamasi laiškais, dienoraščių įrašais, straipsniais kurie parašyti aplankius Vokietiją.

The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People

So what this book is, is a series of letters, diary entries, reflections, magazine and newspaper articles - or portions from them - which go on and on about the joys of visiting Germany, and how all that brown shirt, Nazi stuff will just go away - give it time! Yes, the government is going a little overboard on race, but that's just an aberration which will sort itself out in time. Because, really, the German people will never allow this to go too far. The book ends with chilling accounts of life in Germany during the war, as shortages gave way to terror and constant bombing raids. The Americans bombed during the day and the British at night, and slowly Germany industry was destroyed, and it cities – some of which were among the great cultural jewels of civilization – were reduced to piles of rubble. By the end of the war anything, even communism, would have been better than freezing and starving in the cellars of bombed-out cities.

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Pre-existing racism and fear. Anti-semitism was rampant in Germany and throughout the world. Just like anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant feelings are plaguing our world now. What does come through the book is that if the British and Americans were relatively popular visitors to Germany, especially in the Weimar years, the French were not. There are also descriptions of President Hindenburg, who was half hidden by a curtain after he had inaugurated Hitler as Chancellor, as he received the plaudits from below while saluting the crowd. There are some wonderful descriptions of that day. Weeks after an English journalist notes that they were confronted everywhere by election propaganda.At a time when the anti-Semitic far right is growing across Europe, this is a timely reminder of the dangers of turning a blind eye to it. From the poverty that the Germans were living in, and this includes a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Margaret of Prussia to the ordinary German. With witnesses to how the pain for the Germans got worse especially with the riots and revolutionary behaviour. After the Munich Beerhall Putsch, the French asked about the National Socialist Party and an Aloysius Hitler, and the British response was there was nothing to be alarmed about.

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Did anything change in the attitudes of the travelers after their experience? It doesn’t appear so in most cases. People saw what they wanted to see and ignored the things that might have troubled them. It was common early in the 30s for NAZI’s to give tours of work camps such as Dachau. Most travelers were untroubled. Of course they were getting a much sanitized tour in which guards were dressed as prisoners and were not experiencing abuse. This book BRILLIANTLY chronicles how and why ordinary people endured, accepted, and often cheered Hitler’s rise and if you don’t think you could do the same thing then you definitely need to read this book. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown Absorbing book...difficult to put down. Fast moving and fascinating glimpse into the 1930s in Germany - original accounts. Reflects day to day life and feelings from foreigners in Germany. Conflicting views of the third reich - the beauty of the german countryside and cities, the vibrancy and friendliness of the people, the discipline and purposefulness of life particular for the young people , the prospering of the economy and the richness of the music, art and culture seemed to dominate peoples thoughts and "excuse" the nasty things going on. The German propaganda machine and understanding of media was a big help. Also one big theme at the time was even if Hitler is "bad" he is protecting Europe from communism. Accounts of meeting Hitler are very favourable - a charming, interested and motivated individual who was not the ranting person of his speeches. Visits to the annual Nuremberg rallies and Bayreuth festivals were big highlights. Most of the positives are still positives today.....you get the feeling that the plunge into war was all very avoidable. Anti semitism was easy to see and yet many foreigners ignored it (partly because many were also anti semitic). Lloyd George for all is charm and leadership has alot to answer for....not only was he a key decison maker for Versaille (disasterous agreement and a key reason for WW2) but he also met Hitler in the 1930s and thought him a fantastic fellow and one the world should be happy to have.....Leaders do not have monopoly on the truth no matter how impressive they are And what were ordinary Germans thinking at the time? And what about the MULTITUDE of tourists, journalists, students, scholars, political figures and even entire happy families doing visiting Germany right up and to the very day the war began?)

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Another reason for many people’s willingness to ignore – at least to an extent – the darker sides of National Socialism, even late into the 1930s, was their love for Germany. Many academics “chose to travel in the Third Reich because Germany’s cultural heritage was simply too precious to renounce for politics, however unpleasant those politics might be.” Others were taken in by the idyllic atmosphere of Germany’s cities and landscapes. The writer J.A. Cole, who was not a Nazi sympathiser, wrote: ‘I cannot see a German town for the first time on a sunny morning without a rising of the spirits, a feeling that here is place delightfully foreign yet at the same time a place where one could live happily.’ The author comments that “it would seem that those travellers fundamentally hostile to the Nazis instinctively looked beyond the regime to what they imagined to be the real Germany; a country that, despite everything, maintained its enduring power to beguile and entrance.” The main takeaway is that whilst the warning signs of Hitler’s regime are obvious with the benefit of hindsight, the situation was much murkier to those living in the midst of it. The author notes that even many “politically sophisticated” visitors of the Third Reich were unsure what to think of Hitler’s Germany. She puts this down to a number of things: Added to this was the fact that many in Europe and American disliked the French more than the Germans. The French were seen as arrogant, chaotic, and ungrateful for the aid they had been given in the First World War, and were thought to have been the driving force behind the harsh peace terms that devastated Germany. For many people it seemed obvious that the future of Europe lay with the alliance of the Germanic peoples in Britain and Germany, an alliance which would dominate the rest of the word politically, economically, and militarily. British Admiral Sir Barry Domvile (whose support for Hitler’s regime was so enthusiastic the British government interned him at the start of the war), was a true believer in this kind of alliance, and a visit to Germany “confirmed a deep belief, shared by so many men who had fought in the Great War, that without a strong alliance between England and Germany there could be no world peace.” (p. 181)

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Kol kultūros žmonės puotavo ir žavėjosi kita Vokietijoso dalis beveik badavo ir antisemitizmas visi augo. Knowing that anti-Semitism and animosity towards communism were widespread sentiments in the 1930s, the Nazis happily made use of the idea that there was a common enemy. As part of this effort, from the mid-1930s onwards, guided tours of Dachau became a kind of tourist attraction – and it worked. ‘Adjutant says most prisoners Communist,’ Victor Cazalet MP wrote in his diary. ‘If that is the case, then they can stay there for all I care.’ Two other visitors praised the Nazis for giving these ‘dregs of humanity’ a new chance. When James Grover MacDonald, American High Commissioner for Refugees coming from Germany, questioned the necessity of Dachau, his guide told him “Germany was still in the throes of a revolution, and that whereas in most revolutions political prisoners were shot, at Dachau ‘we try to reform them’.” What none of them could have known was that the prisoners they saw on their guided tours were usually guards in disguise.I found this a fascinating read especially as a follow on to the excellent Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 which I read recently and which showed how the German people were duped by Hitler and ultimately were complicit in what happened once he had supreme power. This brought a different perspective to that as it was based on writings of overseas visitors to the Third Reich. It was striking what a popular destination it was for both British and Americans despite the persecution of the Jews that had started and was clearly going on. It seems that the English upper classes saw Nazi Germany as the lesser of two evils compared to the communist threat from Russia - and thank goodness for Wallis Simpson as Edward VIII would have been a disastrous king for the period that his brother ended up reigning. The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt – of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust? Personal economic circumstances. In the short term, Hitler took Germany from desperation to prosperity and people were feeling much better. Sounds a lot like the 401(k) Trumpers. Julia Boyd has written what has to be one of the most fascinating books of the using new material for private collections and archives around the world. She also asks the poignant question of without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? Clearly not an easy question to answer, but one Julia Boyd sets out to do with Travellers in the Third Reich.