Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd

surreal scenes pepper Boyd’s deep trawl of travellers’ tales from the scores of visitors who were drawn to the ‘new Germany’ in the 1930s.’ – Spectator

lets her voices, skilfully orchestrated, speak for themselves, which they do with great eloquence.’ – Daily Telegraph both flatters and challenges our hindsight. Praise for Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich In its pages we meet the Jews who survived – and those who didn’t the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime and a blind boy whose life was thought ‘not worth living’. Why did Germans respond to Hitler in the manner that they did? How did their attitudes change as the war progressed? And when all hope was gone and their country lay in ruins, how did they pick themselves up and start again?ĭrawing on archive material, letters, interviews and memoirs, A Village in the Third Reich is an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, of the descent into totalitarianism and of the tragedies that befell all of those touched by Nazism. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds.īy putting one village under the microscope, this book evocatively portrays the momentous period of Nazism in Germany. Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism

Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd