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Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses To The Nazi Rise To Power (2012)

by Andrew Nagorski(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

143919100X (ISBN13: 9781439191002)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: This was a good book with a really different perspective. It was interesting to read the impressions various American journalists and diplomats had during Hitler's rise to power and how some of them buried their heads in the sand while others gradually understood and tried to communicate his true intentions. This book seems very well researched, but it was hard to follow at times when, say, the author would reference a journalist who was mentioned in one paragraph several chapters back. Overall, a good read!
review 2: This is a well-researched book about Americans in Germany before and during World War II. It won't answer the big question, though. Why did the Germans support Hitler? Why did they vote him into power? What did he promise them, and how did he ... moreso improve conditions once in power, that they were willing to put up with his obviously being nuts? Yeah, I know he blamed all the problems in Germany on the wealthy bankers (ie, Jews) and foreigners, and certainly things were economically awful after WWI. But I still haven't heard a good explanation that starts from the premise that the Germans were just people, like us, not monsters. Because I'm pretty sure what he was saying was not that different from what we are hearing from our politicians. Even though comparing Occupy Wall Street breaking bank windows to Germans breaking bank windows on Kristallnacht can get you fired. Yeah, yeah, nobody today is advocating a holocaust. I don't think Hitler did, either, back when as chancellor he decided to dispense with the legislature. The atrocities followed the amassing of power. Lesson: don't let politicians amass power; then they can't commit atrocities. less

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