A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism – from the author of Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich

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Victoria Coren Mitchell and husband David's relationship timeline... and how Peep Show star waited THREE years in 'agony' for a first date From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy and despair.

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And as we got to know the villagers better, it came as no surprise to learn that their response to these cataclysmic events was driven as much by practical everyday concerns, the instinct to safeguard their families—from threats both real and imagined—and personal loyalties and enmities as by the great political and social issues of the time. Julia Boyd previously wrote Travellers in the Third Reich, which described the peculiar society experienced by visitors to Germany in the 30s. Its successor is more ambitious but it is a further triumph. That at least may be something to cling to in a world where so many of the lessons of history seem to have been forgotten.

Contains many amazing anecdotes . . . It warns us that we, with our all-seeing hindsight, might ourselves have been fooled or beguiled or inclined to make excuses, had we been there at the time. I can thoroughly recommend it as a contribution to knowledge and an absorbing and stimulating book in itself.’ – Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday Today the only visible scars of the war and the Nazi years can be found in the memorial chapel, where the names of the 286 Oberstdorfers killed in the Second World War are carved in stone. Some families never forgave their neighbours for what happened, while others tried to forget. But what cannot be seen is the invisible scars of the Third Reich which will always remain part of the village’s history. Masterly... [an] important and gripping book... [Boyd is] a leading historian of human responses in political extremis.'The Oldie

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In Martin’s gruff but dreamy Yorkshire, he finds people who are a bit more tolerant and understanding than in the go-ahead South-East. Which may be why all those TV programmes are doing so well. A community of farmers and small-business people, they were typically conservative in their politics, Catholic in their religion and traditional in their views. Dua Lipaannounces the release date for new single Houdini - marking her first solo music in THREE YEARS Nazi history began in the village in 1927 when a postman, Karl Weinlein transferred into the village from Nuremberg. Weinlein had a better NSDAP party membership number than Goebbels. A low party number conferred on Weinlein hallowed status within the Party. The villages were reluctant to join, but the Wall Street crash did offer fertile ground even in Oberstdorf. A nation of wheeler dealers: Half who sold a car online did so to an online buying service... and three-quarters were HAPPY with the experience!

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Those who actively supported National Socialism were forced to make adjustments. Anyone who stepped out of line or criticized the regime risked “protective custody” in the newly established camp for political prisoners at Dachau. As the months went by, some villagers found Nazi methods increasingly disturbing, but others, dismissing the more unpleasant rumors as foreign propaganda, remained committed to the regime.Vivid, moving stories leave us asking "What would I have done?"’ Professor David Reynolds, author of Island Stories Schitt's Creek star Emily Hampshire apologizes for dressing as warring exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard for Halloween: 'I am deeply sorry and ashamed'