Physical Description
xiii, 335 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Foreword / by Studs Terkel
Introduction
Prelude : the end of the Republic
Shades of the past
The beginning of the Third Reich
Dancing lessons and torture chambers
How we were "brought into line"
Who were the Nazis?
The perfect police state
The misunderstood poet
Was there really nothing people could do?
The tightening of the screws
Resistance in Hamburg
A visitor from Basel
The Führer is always right!
Getting by
From the Anschluss to the Night of Broken Glass
Katrina with the golden hair
Are you familiar with Buchenwald?
Moving toward war
On your guard! The enemy is listening!
The beginning of the end
Wartime
By the shores of the North Sea
Operation Weser
Lebensborn-"In thirty years..six hundred more regiments!"
Hitler's triumph
Death of the "Sealion"
Clandestine operations
"Carmen"
"Hiwis" and cockatoos
How the "final victory" turned into "wool-gathering"
Clinging to hope
A man who simply did his duty
Plan 7
The supreme effort
A messenger from hell
Aunt Martha is buried
The three guardian angels
Waiting for liberation
Zero hour.
Other Authors/Editors
Engelmann, Bernt, 1921-1994
ISBN
0394524497
9780394524498
Notes
Translation of: Im Gleichschritt marsch and Bis alles in Scherben fällt.
Foreword / by Studs Terkel -- Introduction -- Prelude : the end of the Republic -- Shades of the past -- The beginning of the Third Reich -- Dancing lessons and torture chambers -- How we were "brought into line" -- Who were the Nazis? -- The perfect police state -- The misunderstood poet -- Was there really nothing people could do? -- The tightening of the screws -- Resistance in Hamburg -- A visitor from Basel -- The Führer is always right! -- Getting by -- From the Anschluss to the Night of Broken Glass -- Katrina with the golden hair -- Are you familiar with Buchenwald? -- Moving toward war -- On your guard! The enemy is listening! -- The beginning of the end -- Wartime -- By the shores of the North Sea -- Operation Weser -- Lebensborn-"In thirty years..six hundred more regiments!" -- Hitler's triumph -- Death of the "Sealion" -- Clandestine operations -- "Carmen" -- "Hiwis" and cockatoos -- How the "final victory" turned into "wool-gathering" -- Clinging to hope -- A man who simply did his duty -- Plan 7 -- The supreme effort -- A messenger from hell -- Aunt Martha is buried -- The three guardian angels -- Waiting for liberation -- Zero hour.