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This non-fiction book about German artists, scientists, and philosophers was highly interesting and very, very tightly packed with information. It spans the past ~250 years and includes but doesn't focus solely on the Third Reich and the developments during, to and fro it. Or at least it tries to, I often got the impression that Peter Watson tried to use another angle, but often slipped back into connecting the current chapter/person to the Hitler-Era in some way. But then there is probably no way around the abhorrent 12 years that left millions of people all around the world broken or dead.
While Peter Watson repeatedly states that his book is not meant to find out why Germany in particular went to become the abhorrend dictatorship it was, there are still several occurrences of "and the German Innerlichkeit (living inside of ones head a lot) probably played into the Third Reich's development a lot" usually followed by sentences that felt like "or not. Maybe. Possibly." So it was a bit indecisive there. All in all also a good place to start if you want to learn about German thinking and culture.
While Peter Watson repeatedly states that his book is not meant to find out why Germany in particular went to become the abhorrend dictatorship it was, there are still several occurrences of "and the German Innerlichkeit (living inside of ones head a lot) probably played into the Third Reich's development a lot" usually followed by sentences that felt like "or not. Maybe. Possibly." So it was a bit indecisive there. All in all also a good place to start if you want to learn about German thinking and culture.