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3.76 AVERAGE
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Very interesting angle on Hitler's rise to power, couldn't put it down.
challenging
dark
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informative
medium-paced
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reflective
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tense
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adventurous
dark
informative
sad
tense
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This is a must read with the federal government administration in 2018. I found too many similarities. Fortunately, our current laws (unless they are dismantled) prohibit the 100's of laws made against the Jews and any German or other sympathizers.
This book is blood curdling, heart wrenching, and bone chilling. The world sat silent in 1934 when they could have come together to stop what became all that was WWII. I can't honestly say that this would be prevented today. I can hope, but I don't know it for certain.
This book is blood curdling, heart wrenching, and bone chilling. The world sat silent in 1934 when they could have come together to stop what became all that was WWII. I can't honestly say that this would be prevented today. I can hope, but I don't know it for certain.
dark
informative
medium-paced
“…the strange indifference to atrocity that had settled over the nation, the willingness of the populace and of the moderate elements in the government to accept each new oppressive decree, each new act of violence, without protest.”(328)
I'm not the type to race through non-fiction, typically, but I could hardly put this book down. The Dodds, real people, unfold as such odd characters that one would think the author had stretched the bounds of credibility had they been made up. The simple Southern history professor who despises pomp, circumstance and excess, yet somehow winds up as US Ambassador to Hitler's Berlin. He seems more concerned with the embassy budget and the length of telegrams than the obvious signs of Germany's military build-up. His daughter, initially a Nazi sympathizer, who has assignations with a ridiculous range of VIPs, including the head of the Gestapo and a Soviet spy, all while still being married to a banker back in the US. And of course, the whole Crazy Circus that was the Reich leadership. Truth truly is stranger than fiction.