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by Sebastian Haffner; Oliver Pretzel (Translator)

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Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. 8-page photo insert.

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Readers praise the memoir-like sections that vividly trace a Berliner's private life from 1914 to 1938 and the suffocating erosion of privacy under the rise of fascism. They are less engaged by the author's abstract theorizing about German national character and critiques of comradeship, which some find tendentious or dull. The book lands as compelling personal history but feels uneven when it shifts into ideology.

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Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars.

Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler's rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices.

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It is a duel between two very unequal adversaries: an exceedingly powerful, formidable, and ruthless state and an insignificant, unknown private individual.

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  • Title Defying Hitler: A Memoir
  • Author Sebastian Haffner; Oliver Pretzel (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 309
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Publication date 2003-08-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780312421137 / 0312421133
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects National socialism, Germany - History - 1918-1933
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002017058
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Sebastian Haffner was born in Berlin in 1907, and died in 1999. In 1938, he was forced to flee to Britain, where he worked as a journalist. In 1954, he returned to Germany and became a distinguished historian and commentator.

Oliver Pretzel, Sebastian Haffner's son, is the translator of this work.

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