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The German War
- A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945; Citizens and Soldiers
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche.
As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials - personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence - to answer this question. He offers an unprecedented portrait of wartime Germany, bringing the hopes and expectations of the German people - from infantrymen and tank commanders on the Eastern Front to civilians on the home front - to vivid life. While most historians identify the German defeat at Stalingrad as the moment when the average German citizen turned against the war effort, Stargardt demonstrates that the Wehrmacht in fact retained the staunch support of the patriotic German populace until the bitter end.
Astonishing in its breadth and humanity, The German War is a groundbreaking new interpretation of what drove the Germans to fight - and keep fighting - for a lost cause.
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- marykk
- 05-12-16
Great read for history buffs
This doesn't deal with battles but rather with the effects of National Socialism on ordinary people, soldiers and citizens. The author quotes extensively from diaries and letters which helps the reader to understand what it was like for Germans. The shocking part is how little most seemed to understand how and why they were fighting a war and how little sympathy they had for the victims as though they suffered the most because of Allied bombings. After the war the generation that fought it was unwilling to accept collective guilt and many continued to blame everything on the Jews.
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- Jason
- 04-28-16
Very insightful
Michael Kramer is the best in the business! This is a very interesting and insightful book. I have read a lot of ww2 history but nothing with this point of view. I highly recommend this book for any interested in this area of history.
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- Dulce
- 06-08-16
An utterly engaging book
Having read scores of recent works about WWII, I was dubious that I needed to read another. But Stargardt's book is a terrific addition to the literature and should not be missed. As others have said, it's not primarily a battlefield account, instead dealing with the attitudes and beliefs of a wide range of contemporary Germans living, voluntarily blinkered, during the war. The book is especially strong in dealing with the institutions that were responsible for molding the German worldview. Even before the war, Germans had been an "organizing" society, with citizens, especially those in the larger cities, tending to join multiple cultural, civic, and religious communities. This tendency was exploited by the Nazis, who understood how voluntary organizations could be manipulated to serve their purposes of ideological inculcation.
The Hitler Youth, the League of German Maidens, the various welfare and homeland defense organizations, and especially the churches, are examined in this light. Stargardt doesn't let any of these organizations--again, especially the churches--off the hook. Churches saw themselves, with very few exceptions, as a bulwark of the state. At their best, the churches simply ignored the mass extermination of the Jews. At their worst, they actively approved Hitler's "final solution." German citizens who were aware of the ongoing Holocaust--and Stargardt shows that the majority clearly were aware--chose not to consider the extermination of the Jews to be anywhere near the top of their most pressing concerns. The churches' willful abandonment of morality, the indoctrination of children in Nazi youth movements, and the power of the Nazi leaders' propaganda machine, encouraged otherwise rational people, heirs to a monumental cultural heritage, to reach this point.
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- Miriam
- 07-02-16
Very good, skillfully written, just one flaw.
could not stop listening. The author wove letters and diaries of ordinary people into the context of the larger picture so skillfully.
The reader has a very good voice for the job: crisp, mildly authoritative, pleasantly gravelly.
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- chris calabrese
- 08-10-16
Amazing fresh new insight
what i really enjoyed about this book was being a fan of world war 2 history this is a new perspective that i have desperately have been looking for. it is very well done great book.
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- Donald
- 07-13-16
A good to excellent read
Narrator excellent. I love the this period of history and this book described a time I had not studied.
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- Kathy Perow
- 06-16-16
Outstanding Blend
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An outstanding blend of historical and anecdotal narrative. The personal observations of those who lived through the war as German citizens gave depth to the history of the era. We read a lot about the war in general, about the Holocaust, about the Blitz, but very little about the war inside Germany. This volume fills a gap. It's not laudatory; Germany is clearly explained but not praised. Fascinating read.
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- Ann + Francis S Brown
- 06-09-16
Outstanding.
An outstanding work of scholarship, written and read beautifully. The book examines the German people's complicit and implicit support for Hitler and the Nazi's. Stargardt's research exposes the guilt of the entire nation. Through letters and diaries he shows the Germans of the period to be cruel, willfully blind and loving. This is ugly history but the book examines what must be examined.
I'm an avid reader of ww2 history but after reading this book, I've said to myself, enough, I'm tired. Through this book I I felt I was a first hand observer of the German people, 1939-1945. I'm tired and a little sad.
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- Gary
- 05-24-16
Very interesting and informative . Well narrated.
Compelling story with incredible detail and characters. So much easier to digest listening versus reading.
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- Donald
- 05-13-16
compelling
poignant reminder to the futility of war, and how good people can be led down a path leading to dehumanization of people based on worship of a man and his ideology.
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