Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People: The Rise of Fascism Seen Through the Eyes of Everyday People

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During the 1930s Germany was a popular destination for British and American tourists, which also inspired people such as WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Throughout the book there are excellent portraits of Germany pained by the travellers including the old soldiers, the literary set and those from academia.

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Traveller attitudes give an insight into the feelings before the war, often at odds with or in more depth than many standard histories .Reicho didybė aprašyta taip stipriai ir taip įtaigiai, visokie festivaliai ir masiniai renginiai, kad net norisi laiko masina nusikelti. But the book is studded with glints of the travelers' interesting observations and it portrays many facets of the 1930s, a period I am increasingly convinced most Americans know nothing about. When he remarked that these signs hadn’t been there a few days ago, the response was ‘no, but now the Olympic Games are over.

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Julia Boyd weaves together stories and anecdotes with such skill and fluidity, reading her account seemingly takes no effort whatsoever. Travelers from England and America especially (the vast majority of travelers to Germany at that time) had their own “casual” racism toward Jews and seemed pretty unconcerned with what they saw. Stilius tikrai nesudėtingas, knyga įtraukia labiau nei koks trileris ir labai įdomiai nuspalvina tokią didingą ir paslaptingą trečiojo reicho Vokietiją. It was a beautiful country, filled with picturesque castles and medieval towns, a rich culture of symphonies, operas, museums, and magnificent churches.

Historian and biographer Julia Boyd opens her riveting “ Travelers in the Third Reich” with this anecdote: “Imagine that it is the summer of 1936 and you are on honeymoon in Germany. Those who were present on Kristallnacht were horrified by the wantonness of the violence, but after that, the Jews disappeared from view, allowing visitors to think very little about them, with the exception of a delegation of American Quakers, who were given the runaround by Nazi officials. She doesn't succeed in truly reconciling what these visitors thought, because there are so many personalities and experiences involved, and she doesn't follow through to the obvious (if possibly unavailable) conclusion of what all these people thought later, in hindsight. It promises to show us Hitler's Germany "through the eyes everyday people" but it turns out the majority of those eyes belong to the European nobility, high diplomats, industrialists and artists most of whom were mere passers-by rather than local observers.

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It’s a fascinating demonstration of how difficult it is to fully comprehend history while it’s in the making. The uncomfortable moral of Travellers in the Third Reich is that people see and hear only what they already want to see and hear" -- David Pryce-Jones, Standpoint; "Fascinating . When Denis de Rougemont, a Swiss literary and cultural philosopher, arrived in Germany in 1935 he was convinced that ‘Hitlerism’ was a right-wing movement. To add to the confusion, it became increasingly difficult to see what differentiated National Socialism from communism. Moterys, juodi atletai ir žydai, žinoma turėjo daug prastesnes sąlygas kai tuo metu baltieji arijai vyrai valgė steikus ir gyveno prabangoje.

From the end of World War One onwards Germany marketed itself as a tourist destination and plenty of people went to visit.

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Right up until the late 1930s, Germany was successfully promoting itself as the ideal place to vacation, its smiling people overflowing with gemütlichkeit and eager to please, unlike the stuck-up and dirty French. filed by steadily for three hours in the dead of night — no drums, music or anything — all perfectly solemn and tragic. It’s always been a mystery post WWII why intelligent people could not grasp the threat that NAZI’s posed to the world.Early on many foreigners were impressed with how Hitler was rebuilding Germany after the depression. The British government was warned of the Nazi threat by its professional diplomats but had plenty of German sympathizers in its own ranks, and was terrified of provoking another war, so they failed to create a unified diplomatic front with France.