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Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-
Subjects
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, European.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Civilians in war -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Violence -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
War and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, European.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Civilians in war -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Violence -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
War and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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An iron wind : Europe under Hitler / Peter Fritzsche.
by
Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-
Basic Books, c2016.
Call #:
940.534 F919i
Subjects
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
--
Influence.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Occupied territories.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Europe.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Personal
narratives
,
European
.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Social aspects
--
Europe.
Civilians in
war
--
Europe
--
History
--
20th century.
Violence
--
Social aspects
--
Europe
--
History
--
20th century.
War
and society
--
Europe
--
History
--
20th century.
Europe
--
Social conditions
--
20th century.
ISBN:
9780465057740
0465057748
Description:
xviii, 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-348) and index.
Contents:
Talk in wartime
--
Hitler means
war
!
--
A new authoritarian age?
--
Living with the Germans
--
Journey to Russia
--
The fate of the Jews
--
The life and death of God
--
The destruction of humanity
--
Broken words.
Summary:
"Unlike
World
War
I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front,
World
War
II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the
war
effort, and in the end, the vast majority of the
war
's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe--the
war
's deadliest killing ground--experienced forced labor, deportation, mass executions, and genocide. As direct targets of and witnesses to violence, rather than far-off bystanders, civilians were forced to face the
war
head on. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, fiction, and other first-person accounts, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche redefines our understanding of the civilian experience of
war
across the vast territory occupied and threatened by Nazi Germany. Amid accumulating horrors, ordinary people across Europe grappled with questions of faith and meaning, often reaching troubling conclusions.
World
War
II exceeded the human capacity for understanding, and those men and women who lived through it suspected that language could not adequately register the horrors they saw and experienced. But it nevertheless prompted an outpouring of writing, as people labored to comprehend and piece thoughts into philosophy. Their broken words are all we have to reconstruct how contemporaries saw the
war
around them, how they failed to see its terrible violence in full, and how they attempted to translate the destruction into
narratives
. Carefully reading these testimonies as no historian has done before, Fritzsche's groundbreaking work sheds new light on the most violent conflict in human history, when
war
made words inadequate, and the inadequacy of words heightened the devastation of
war
"--From publisher.
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