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Travellers in the Third Reich
- The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
The Sunday Times top three best seller.
One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017.
A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017.
The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible, but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust?
Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating firsthand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable that the listener will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.
These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes and its ultimate destruction.
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- Allan S Ferguson
- 24-10-20
Fascinating incited, brilliantly read
I enjoyed every minute of this book. The incites are fascinating. The reading of this book was also excellent. I am now actively looking for any book narrated by Stephanie Racine as she is, in my opinion, an excellent narrator, and that can make all the difference to a book.
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- G Copeland
- 04-01-24
Incongruity of tourism and prison camps
Evoked the period brilliantly… brought it to life; amazing how so many clever foreigners were hoodwinked
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- miss
- 11-10-19
Fascinating
This is a fascinating account of life in Nazi Germany, through the eyes (and diaries) of foreign travellers, mostly from English-speaking countries, which raises questions of personal awareness and responsibility of individuals choosing to travel to Germany, while at the same time offering a pre-war perspective that was trying to make sense of the new world and maintain peace. It is at once narrated like a novel and full of testimonies, which makes the period come to life.
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- M. CARVER
- 18-11-21
Captivating accounts of Pre war Germany
The amount of different accounts in this book is very good. The variation in the tales told gave a feel of uneasiness with some peoples obvious antisemitism.
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- Sarah Banbery
- 23-05-24
Fascinating
Absolutely engrossing and fascinating- excellent performance too. Many extraordinary stories and gives an insight into German society following the First World War.
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- John
- 25-07-22
A view through a narrow lens
A good listen, but inevitably, because of the period, the travellers are mostly people of means and their experiences reflect that - in the places they go and the people they meet. The changes in Germany are well observed, but it is through a narrow lens of people with money There is a lot of champagne. While that provides exposure to some of the main figures of the time, there is little sense of the mass experience. However, that is a familiar issue with history books. Worth listening to and well narrated.
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- S. Roche
- 17-10-19
Terrible narration style
The narrator sounds like she's reading a children's story, too off putting to do the subject matter the justice it deserves. Such a shame! :(
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- Calogero S Farruggio
- 16-02-20
chilling
This has been a perspective that I have not experienced. How could people just do nothing with such an attack on democracy and humanity? This book has given me an insight into this. This book highlights for me how mindful we have to be now above all with the resurgence of populism that we can not let any sign of intolerance or attack on our democracy go unchallenged. We must remember that this cannot happen again ever. Doing nothing cannot be an option!
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- cicero
- 27-02-21
Understanding
This is a well written book detailing the accounts of many people, including Germans and foreigners. It gives an interesting insight into how Nazism was viewed. I found it engaging and instructive when trying to understand how the Nazis were able to gain such support and power. It was not entirely clear whether some of the quotes were from after the war which would possibly explain some of the opinions given. Also many of the contributions were from the upper classes, I would have liked to here more from the working people but I guess they would have been less likely to travel and less likely to write letters or record their thoughts. These last points did not detract from an interesting book that I throughly enjoyed.
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- Miss Julie Wright
- 01-06-19
Great book, great story, great history
I absolutely loved this book. It is very accessible and lends its self well to an audiobook.
The history is super and the range of sources are woven into a compelling narrative.
The reader has a nice voice to listen to and the pronunciation of German words and words from other languages is useful. A few (very few) parts are mis-read - significant errors made in a couple of places - significant in that mis-read words changed the meaning of the text. But this did not spoil the enjoyment of the book as a whole.
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