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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The main takeaway is that whilst the warning signs of Hitler’s regime are obvious with the benefit of hindsight, the situation was much murkier to those living in the midst of it. The author notes that even many “politically sophisticated” visitors of the Third Reich were unsure what to think of Hitler’s Germany. She puts this down to a number of things: After the Britons, Americans are the next most well-represented, but they are in fact a far second, making for little overlap with Adam Nagorski’s Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, for which this work serves as an excellent complement. Beyond the Anglophones, there is only a sprinkling of other nationalities but these become essential for Boyd’s coverage of the war years – a Chinese scholar of Sanskrit unable to leave, a businessman from neutral Sweden, visitors and soldiers from conquered Scandinavia, along with a few Englishwomen married to Germans. An account of one of those wartime visitors: Knut Hamsun was emotionally devastated by the war. Not that the Nobel laureate had lost any of his admiration for Hitler or, more especially, for Goebbels. On 19 May 1943 he spent several hours with the literary-minded minister for propaganda at the latter’s house in Berlin. Goebbels was so incensed to learn that Hamsun’s Collected Works was no longer being read in Nordic countries that he at once decided to print an edition of 100,000 copies. Hamsun demurred, pointing out that it was hardly the right moment given Germany’s severe paper shortage. The brief encounter must have left a deep impression on the Norwegian because, as soon as he reached home, he made the remarkable decision to send Goebbels his Nobel medal. ‘I know of nobody, Herr Reichsminister,’ he wrote in an accompanying note, ‘who has unstintingly, year after year written and spoken on Europe’s and humanity’s behalf as idealistically as yourself. I ask your forgiveness for sending you my medal. It is of no use to you whatsoever, but I have nothing else to offer.’ (352-3) I have to say, I really loved that book, because you can see how he managed to manipulate the people's mind, and not only germans, but foreigners as well. Especially I was surprised how many British or Americans adored him at the time.

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Boyd charts the perfect storm that allowed Nazism to take hold: the humiliation of the WWI defeat; the crippling reparations of the Versailles Treaty; the careless liberalism of the Weimar Republic; and the global financial crash of 1929 that sent inflation spiralling and brought Germany to the brink of starvation. tai, kad Hitlerio ankstieji įkvėpėjai buvo pagrinde britai. Šiaip Britanija labai pronacištiška buvo tarpukariu

Early on many foreigners were impressed with how Hitler was rebuilding Germany after the depression. Many of them, as well as many Germans, believed that the Nazis’ anti-Semitism would be temporary. Evelyn Wrench, chairman of The Spectator, was one of them. Although “condemning unreservedly the regime’s treatment of Jews”, he tried to put it in context. He reported that many of his German friends reminded him that “Germany had just undergone an almost bloodless revolution and, naturally at such times, ‘as you English know from history,’ regrettable things happened.” Keliautojai buvo itin subtiliai įtraukiami į propogandos mašiną. Kokia Vokietija didinga ir nuostabi, kokie sveiki žmonės, kultūra ir kaip viskam trukdo žydai. The book has a wide range of viewpoints; academics, oversea students, members of the British aristocracy, diplomats, journalists, politicians, and ordinary travellers, are all represented. There are those who, like Unity Mitford, staked out Hitler and infiltrated his inner circle out of fanaticism, through Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who were unimpressed, to those who immediately spotted the danger of the emerging National Socialist Party and those who, without the benefit of hindsight, were unquestioning and uncritical - even when visiting book burnings and labour camps. Persuasive propaganda and the distortion of truth, or simple politeness, led to some visitors remaining uncritical of a country not their own. Reicho didybė aprašyta taip stipriai ir taip įtaigiai, visokie festivaliai ir masiniai renginiai, kad net norisi laiko masina nusikelti. Kažkaip susišaukia su dabartine turizmo bangą į Šaiurės Korėją. Tiek daug mums žinomų vardų ir švenčių kurios minimos, pvz oktober fest arba Thomas Cook kuris šlovino ir skatino turizmą į Vokietiją

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She includes professionals such as diplomats and journalists, famous writers, students and holiday takers and everything in between. Everyone thought Germany was beautiful with its landscapes, music culture and its universities. Very few included significant negative comments. NAZI’s were very good with PR, showing how the country had improved since the war and the draconian policies of the Versailles Treaty. And were they ever good at putting on a show! All that hid the very nasty core of their racism that eventually led to the halocaust.

You can read hundreds of histories of the Nazi era, and they will all describe the steps to Hitler’s takeover. The ones I’m most interested in focus on the social history of the era. How did authoritarianism, race hatred, and war-mongering take over a country most known for its beauty and culture? A particularly striking way to gain some insight is to read first-hand accounts. Galėčiau dar rašyti ir rašyti, bet tiesiog labai rekomenduoju. Stilius tikrai nesudėtingas, knyga įtraukia labiau nei koks trileris ir labai įdomiai nuspalvina tokią didingą ir paslaptingą trečiojo reicho Vokietiją. Author Julia Boyd’s thoroughly researched history shows us what non-Germans from all walks of life and across the political spectrum thought of Germany during the Nazi era. It’s a fascinating demonstration of how difficult it is to fully comprehend history while it’s in the making. It’s human nature to see what we want to see, to relate to what feels most familiar and comfortable. Many visitors were charmed by the beauty of the country, the friendliness of its people, and what seemed to be a country getting on the path to prosperity. Up until Kristallnacht in 1938, visitors could downplay or even ignore anti-Jewish measures and the treatment of political foes of the Nazis, because they weren’t so easy to see for an outsider.

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Art Appreciation I expected that among the many visitors to the Third Reich in Boyd's book there would be some who were in agreement with Nazi political and racial ideas. But finding those sympathetic to Nazi aesthetics came as something of a surprise, perhaps because such expressions of artistic agreement are not commonly remarked upon. Difficile sfuggire, leggendo il libro, alla straziante consapevolezza di leggere quello che potrebbe essere un resoconto su larga scala di un viaggio a Pompei o Ercolano prima dell'eruzione.

Ypač ryški užsienio jaunimo stovyklose kurios buvo labai madoje tarp Anglijos ir Amerikos jaunimo. Susitikimai su valdančiaisiais tikintis, kad vaikai perduos viską tėvams. Pvz britų ambasadoriaus dukrai specialus spektaklis ir susitikimai su politikais suorganizuoti tam jog ji kuo teigimiau savo tėvui atsilieptų apie nacių gėrį What comes through strongly is that many of the travellers were viewing their experience through the lens of a love for Germany the country - its cultural heritage and landscape - which evidently distorted the evidence of their senses regarding the Nazi regime. And of course, the Nazi propaganda machine played on this - its effectiveness was not confined to the German population. From the poverty that the Germans were living in, and this includes a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Margaret of Prussia to the ordinary German. With witnesses to how the pain for the Germans got worse especially with the riots and revolutionary behaviour. After the Munich Beerhall Putsch, the French asked about the National Socialist Party and an Aloysius Hitler, and the British response was there was nothing to be alarmed about.

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Some things that were often noticed by travelers: NAZI’s had improved the economy and were loved by the masses for that. Youth were particularly caught up with the movement. NAZI’s were great at spectacles such as the Olympics, rallies and torchlight parades. Many travelers noted that the NAZI’s emphasized the need for annexing (taking) lands around them that had once been part of Germany or which now were seen as places needed as a buffer to protect the safety of the Fatherland. Sounds like a familiar old excuse today. So what this book is, is a series of letters, diary entries, reflections, magazine and newspaper articles - or portions from them - which go on and on about the joys of visiting Germany, and how all that brown shirt, Nazi stuff will just go away - give it time! Yes, the government is going a little overboard on race, but that's just an aberration which will sort itself out in time. Because, really, the German people will never allow this to go too far.

Julia Boyd has written what has to be one of the most fascinating books of the using new material for private collections and archives around the world. She also asks the poignant question of without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? Clearly not an easy question to answer, but one Julia Boyd sets out to do with Travellers in the Third Reich. The author aptly finishes her book with the following words: Perhaps the most chilling fact to emerge from these travellers’ tales is that so many perfectly decent people could return home from Hitler’s Germany singing its praises. Nazi evil permeated every aspect of German society yet, when blended with the seductive pleasures still available to the foreign visitor, the hideous reality was too often and for too long ignored. More than eight decades after Hitler became chancellor we are still haunted by the Nazis. It is right that we should be.