Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

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Drawing exclusively on interviews and personal letters and diaries from the earliest days of the Nazi party to the final hours of the thousand-year Reich, this book reveals how the Hitler cult influenced and corrupted every aspect of public life. Every part of German life was shaped by its malign influence education, health, business, the press, the judicial system, the church, sport, the arts, work, the family.The stark contrast between the myth of One People, One Fuhrer perpetuated by Nazi propaganda and the harsh realities of life in the Third Reich are laid bare in this compelling study.True-life stories of ordinary Germans and their lives in Hitler s Germany. Challenges the popular view of Nazi Germany as a nation unified behind their despotic leader, and asks 'What would you have done if you had been in their shoes?', Includes photographs scattered throughout text."