"Even now," wrote Christopher Isherwood in his "Berlin Diary" of
1933, "I can't altogether believe that any of this has really
happened." Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as
"silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers." In contrast,
a young John F. Kennedy, in the journal he kept on a German tour in
1937, wrote, "The Germans really are too good--it makes people gang
against them for protection."
Drawing on such published and unpublished accounts from writers and
public figures visiting Germany, "Travels in the Reich" creates a
chilling composite portrait of the reality of life under Hitler.
Written in the moment by writers such as Virginia Woolf, Isak
Dinesen, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shirer, Georges
Simenon, and Albert Camus, the essays, letters, and articles
gathered here offer fascinating insight into the range of responses
to Nazi Germany. While some accounts betray a distressing naivete,
overall what is striking is just how clearly many of the travelers
understood the true situation--and the terrors to come.
Through the eyes of these visitors, "Travels in the Reich" offers a
new perspective on the quotidian--yet so often horrifying--details
of German life under Nazism, in accounts as gripping and
well-written as a novel, but bearing all the weight of historical
witness.
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