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Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)

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This is a book of many uses for the student or for just the interested reader. Many books on the shelf concern the history of The Third Reich or World War combats but few concern themselves with the material written inside the Reich before and during the war. Normally one would need seek out memoirs or diaries for that sort of thing, but this book amply supplies various writing from within the Reich by for the most part dedicated Nazis.

The subjects range from the culture itself, to heroes and myths, to racism, to christianity, to whether it is proper for a German woman to have a career or is it more important to have children. Even Adolf Hitler rings in with a speech about that question.

I have the Grosset's Universal Library trade paperback from 1968 which cost a lowly $2.65 at the time. It's good to see this later reprint which will allow a larger, contemporary audience to be privy to the book. For the serious investigator of the Third Reich it is interesting as well as informing to read in translation extracts of the writings of the Third Reich. The book is a keeper.

Semper Fi.

If anyone wishes to understand the rise of dictatorship, the rhetoric of control, or the way that emotions can control the masses, this book is absolutely necessary. "Nazi Culture," uses primary sources written by the Nazi Party themselves during their rise and climax of power. Mosse offers only introductions to the sections, and allows you to be the judge of the articles themselves.

For anyone who wants to avoid fascist elements in a free country, this is a necessity. Don't let a scholar tell you his opinions, use this book to study the texts and become a scholar yourself.

I found this book to be an important read, especially today. Fascism can creep right up on you, and you don't even see it before it's too late. That's what happened to the Germans. That's what can happen again.


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The Winds of War

Not quiete as fast as i would have liked even though it was expedited, but other than that is was good

This was a great source material book for anyone taking an intercultural college or 20th century history course.