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Highly readable account based on mostly new sources. (I guess we couldn't skip Unity altogether.) Fascinating and rather depressing; people won't see what they don't want to see, and Germany was so pleasant and cheap! Nothing groundbreaking here, but a worthy addition to the literature about the interwar period.
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I was very glad to read this book because just about everything I know about Hitler's Germany is either about the persecution of Jews, concentration camps and the war. So I appreciated the range of everyday perspectives. It was also chilling to see how many intelligent, sophisticated and knowledgeable people somehow thought Hitler was OK or tolerable. Without getting too political here, I'll just say that aspect resonated for me.
The book dragged at times and I could have done with a lot less of ...more
The book dragged at times and I could have done with a lot less of ...more
Julia Boyd takes a similar look at the events in yet a broader time frame still–1919 to 1945 in Travelers in the Third Reich. She gives glimpses from British aristocrats, ordinary tourists and everyone in between to try to give the picture of what people “saw” when visiting Germany between the end of the First World War and V.E. Day in 1945.
The majority of tourists visiting Germany during those years were British or American. Americans, many of whom still had family in Germany, it should be poin ...more
The majority of tourists visiting Germany during those years were British or American. Americans, many of whom still had family in Germany, it should be poin ...more
Julia Boyd's Travellers in the Third Reich in many ways resembles Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power by Andrew Nagorski. Boyd casts a wider net than Nagorski, drawing on accounts from those (students, journalists, vacationers, etc.) traveling through the Reich during its (mostly) pre-war years. (Nagorski's book focused more on American journalists, diplomats, and soldiers.) Much of Boyd's material was fresh for me, and, interestingly, has a surprising number of Reich adm
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