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O Perfeito Nazi (2011)

by Martin Davidson(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: The author had a german mother and grandparents and used to go to Berlin for holidays. He starts to research the part his grandfather , Bruno Langbehn played in the war. He finds out that that his grandfather was brought up in Prussia and started off by joining the freikorps before joining the brown shirts, he trained as a Zahn artz( dentist) He was involved in street battles in Berlin with communists then joined the SS and gained decoration, eventually working in the intelligence corps. He learns that his grandfather probably stole a dentist clinic from a jewish dentist and gave to his great grand mother. HE attended the Nuremberg rallies etc. At end of war he and his family living in Prague. HE stripped flat of all evidence of being in SS and held by the Czechs and tried... more in a peoples court but was allowed to live, Initially in a camp then made his way back to Berlin. He hid at the back of his mother’s dentist office. Then moved to a small provisional town and changed name. Later went back to Berlin and work as a dentist. He died in 1970.Very good book, fascinating story. Very vivid account of pre-war Berlin and the street fighting between factions and the internal workings of the SS
review 2: This piece of work by Martin Davidson, first and foremost needs a big round of appreciation. It takes a lot of courage to unravel a family's dirty secret to the world, especially a family that was involved in (or witnessed) multiple instances of atrocities in one of the most despicable times in history. The book is not a biography but, more so, a documentary. A chilling account of why people became what they became, why they made choices so contrary to moral well-being; how did a nasty ideology infest itself among a whole nation, the majority of which breathed their last without providing a single apology. “The central abomination of Nazism wasn’t just its militarism or its craving for war but its insistence that any values that put the human at their center were weak, corrupting, and irrelevant. All had to be downgraded in favor of the Volk, which, though made up of humanity, owed the idea of humanity nothing. The Nazi worldview used biology to undermine life itself. It used rationality to underwrite the irrational. And it made mass killing not just the only consequence, but the final validation, of all its views.”Definitely not a leisure read but engrossing at places. The book falls a little short on editing. Halfway through the book the author is frequently hopping between multiple timelines which made reading, a little sluggish. It’s a collection of facts from multiple documents, so am guessing, putting similar factual stories at one go was the author’s intent. The personal story of his grandfather’s involvement in atrocities at some points are left to assumptions. But there are some very interesting mentions especially of heroes that history didn’t honor for long; neither were they mentioned in the documents of perpetrators nor the victors of the war. (One such mention was of Hans Litten, quite a fascinating story of courage) The Perfect Nazi, in short, is a well-researched book but heavily laden with details. less

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