Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life – foresters, priests, farmers and nuns innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members village councillors, mountaineers, sociĪlists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime… From the author of the bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler which shines a light on the lives of ordinary people.ĭrawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love courage and weakness action, apathy and grief hope, pain, joy and despair. Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf – a place where for hundreds of years people lived ordinary lives while history was made elsewhere. Join us at The Wiener Holocaust Library for a book talk and Q&A by author Julia Boyd on her new work.
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