They Thought They Were Free – The Germans, 1933–45
The Germans, 1933-45
$35.19
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2017
Summary
“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.”
That’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He’s right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did—what…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226525839 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022652583X |
| Author: | Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 502g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 140mm x 24mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A timely reminder of how otherwise unremarkable and in many ways reasonable people can be seduced by demagogues and populists.”
“Milton Mayer’s 1955 classic They Thought They Were Free, recently republished with an afterword by the Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans, was one of the first accounts of ordinary life under Nazism. [It is} dotted with humor and written with an improbably light touch…. In 1951, he returned to Germany to find out what had made Nazism possible…. When Mayer returned home, he was afraid for his own country. He felt … that under the right conditions, he could well have turned out as his German friends did. He learned that Nazism took over Germany not ‘by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler.’”–Cass Sunstein “The New York Review of Books” (6/28/2018 12:00:00 AM)
About The Author
Milton Mayer
Milton Mayer (1908-86) was the author of What Can a Man Do? and coauthor of The Revolution in Education. He wrote for the Progressive, Harper’s, and other outlets.
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