World War II, like no other, was a war of the Germans. The Third Reich put all its moral and physical reserves at stake. Seventy years later - though many books have been written on the subject - we still do not know what the Germans fought for or how they endured the war effort until its bitter end.
The outbreak of war in 1939 was received by the German people with deep reluctance, but without his commitment it would not have been possible to continue it for the next six years. So what was this war like for the Germans? How did its vicissitudes change their opinions and expectations? And when did the Germans realize for the first time that they were waging a genocidal war?
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The war of the Germans. A nation under arms Nicholas Stargardt is an attempt to look at the German experience of the Second World War. This masterfully written story, presented from the point of view of those who lived then - soldiers, teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews - shows in a new, disturbing light the beliefs, hopes and fears of the people who unleashed and fought this brutal war.
Nicholas Stargardt (born 1962) studied at King's College, Cambridge. He is one of the leading British researchers of the history of the Third Reich. He teaches modern European history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and is the author of Witnesses of War:Children's Lives under the Nazis.
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