To wage a war on this scale the Nazis had to harness levels of social mobilisation and personal commitment which went far deeper than anything they had tried to achieve in the pre-war period. Yet, seventy years on – despite whole libraries of books about the war’s origins, course and atrocities – we still do not know what Germans thought they were fighting for or how they managed to continue their war until the bitter end. This book is about how the German people experienced and sustained this war.
