On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler s
assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his
diary, We are the losers, definitely the losers. Learning of the
Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged,
hate is sown a million-fold. Yet in March 1938, he wept for joy at
the Anschluss with Austria: Not to want it just because it has been
achieved by Hitler would be folly.
In a masterful work, Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of
Nazism s ideological grip. Its basic appeal 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, make the country strong and vital, and rid the body politic
of unhealthy elements. The goal was to create a new national and
racial self-consciousness among Germans. For Germany to live,
others especially Jews had to die. Diaries and letters reveal
Germans fears, desires, and reservations, while showing how Nazi
concepts saturated everyday life. Fritzsche examines the efforts of
Germans to adjust to new racial identities, to believe in the
necessity of war, to accept the dynamic of unconditional
destruction in short, to become Nazis.
Powerful and provocative, "Life and Death in the Third Reich"
is a chilling portrait of how ideology takes hold.
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