Using diaries and letters as evidence, Fritzsche argues that the essence of Nazism's ideological grip lay in the Volksgemeinschaft--a "people's community" that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the Versailles treaty, revitalize the country, and cleanse the body politic.
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Using diaries and letters as evidence, Fritzsche argues that the essence of Nazism's ideological grip lay in the Volksgemeinschaft--a "people's community" that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the Versailles treaty, revitalize the country, and cleanse the body politic.
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This book reviews Nazi Germany through a different set of eyes than normal: the Germans themselves. The diaries and letters of Jewish and non-Jewish Germans gives a new perspective to a most horrific period in history.
