Life in the Third Reich

Download or read book Life in the Third Reich written by Richard Bessel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals that daily German life under the Third Reich involved a complex mixture of bribery and terror; of fear and concessions; of barbarism and appeals to conventional moral values employed by the Nazis to maintain their grip on society. Eight leading historians present essays that shed fresh light on topics as familiar as the role of political violence in Nazi seizure of power and the German view of Hitler himself. It also focuses on lesser-known aspects of life in the Third Reich, such as village life, the treatment of "social outcasts," and the Germans' own retrospective view of this period of their history.