| Title | : | They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45 |
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| Author | : | Milton Mayer |
| Release | : | 2017-05-23 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | History |
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| 1 | They Thought They Were Free : The German | Milton Mayer |
| First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933–45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name "Kronenberg." "These ten men were not men of distinction," Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. |
