Inside Hitler's Germany

Germany under Nazi rule. It was hell for some. It was paradise for others. But for most of its citizens, it was simply where they lived. What was daily life like for the ordinary German during those extraordinary years? That's the question answered by Inside Hitler's Germany. This unusual combination of text and images offers testimony from average German soldiers and civilians -- including extensive quotes -- plus more than 280 photographs. The result is a unique, in-depth exploration of issues such as: Hitler's early life and rise to power; Germany in the 1920s: home to a defeated people, hopeless and broke; the Nazi "economic miracle" of the early 1930s: VWs and vacations; the control of youth: turning boys and girls into "ideal Aryans"; women and the Third Reich: machines for motherhood; culture under the Nazis: propaganda and entertainment; the terror begins: repression and persecution of "enemies of the Reich"; the early war days: whirlwind victories and territorial expansion; the later war days: portents of doom, 1941-44; the home front: industry and wartime production; the home front: "normal" life during the war; resistance: the anti-Nazi movement; the final campaigns: old men and children become cannon fodder; the war ends: a country destroyed, a people defeated, a world gone forever. - Back cover.