Full name: Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Author: Sebastian Haffner Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Biographies Culture: Germany Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312421137 0312421133

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler's rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices. Similar books: My Father's Country by Wibke Bruhns The German Trauma by Gitta Sereny Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg The Face of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer Spandau by Albert Speer Hitler's Henchmen by Guido Knopp Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck The Perfect Nazi by Martin Davidson Belonging by Nora Krug Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum Mission at Nuremberg by Tim Townsend The First And The Last by Adolf Galland The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir