Defying Hitler: A MemoirWritten in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler's rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 8 |
Section 4 | 16 |
Section 5 | 20 |
Section 6 | 29 |
Section 7 | 35 |
Section 8 | 39 |
Section 21 | 140 |
Section 22 | 147 |
Section 23 | 158 |
Section 24 | 181 |
Section 25 | 187 |
Section 26 | 194 |
Section 27 | 199 |
Section 28 | 208 |
Section 9 | 46 |
Section 10 | 52 |
Section 11 | 67 |
Section 12 | 72 |
Section 13 | 76 |
Section 14 | 85 |
Section 15 | 97 |
Section 16 | 105 |
Section 17 | 111 |
Section 18 | 117 |
Section 19 | 124 |
Section 20 | 136 |
Section 29 | 219 |
Section 30 | 227 |
Section 31 | 238 |
Section 32 | 247 |
Section 33 | 257 |
Section 34 | 258 |
Section 35 | 269 |
Section 36 | 284 |
Section 37 | 292 |
Section 38 | 297 |