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What We Knew
Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
Contributors
By Karl-Heinz Reuband
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- On Sale
- Jul 31, 2008
- Page Count
- 464 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780786722006
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$19.99 CADFormat
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“A very important book.” —Financial Times
The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state?
In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced in the Third Reich, What We Knew offers answers to these most important questions. Combining the expertise of Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband, What We Knew is the most startling oral history yet of everyday life in the Third Reich.
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“A very important book.”Financial Times
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“The authors of this absorbing and important book present the results of a major collaborative oral history project that is remarkable for its scope and sophistication.”Richard J. Evans, The Historian
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“Fascinating . . . The strength of What We Knew is its diversity. The accumulation of memories of Kristallnacht and deportation, as experienced by victims and onlookers, helps to construct the bigger picture. . . . But it is the vivid detail, such as chips of bone in the Auschwitz air, which really shock.”Independent
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“A wellspring of information, this text provides unprecedented insights into the mind-set and daily lives of ‘average’ Germans, and the lives led by Jews in Nazi Germany.”History in Review
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“The scale and depth of the survey which forms the foundations for the book, the scholarly treatment of its results and the lucid argumentation of the two authors make this a highly impressive and valuable work.”H-Net Reviews
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“A major contribution to the understanding of life in Nazi Germany.”Booklist
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“Sober and sobering. But it's the gripping immediacy of the interviews, laced as they are with anger, guilt, sadness and, still among some Christian Germans, pride, that carries the book.”Publisher’s Weekly
