SA lyderis Erns Rohm buvo homoseksualus ir gėjų barai ant bangos kur lietuviai berniukai linksmino vyrus. Hitleris tada buvo tiesiog nežinomas jaunuolis bandantis iškilti. There were even Americans who saluted and met Hitler! In a restaurant, a parade, a ceremony and thought he was just superb! Kind, soft-spoken, intelligent, and he likes children! The author of this book has really done the legwork of trawling through the letters and diaries of many visitors to Germany in the 1930s, ranging from English aristocrats on tour to American high schoolers to a Chinese PhD student and W.E.B. DuBois. She doesn't succeed in truly reconciling what these visitors thought, because there are so many personalities and experiences involved, and she doesn't follow through to the obvious (if possibly unavailable) conclusion of what all these people thought later, in hindsight. But the book is studded with glints of the travelers' interesting observations and it portrays many facets of the 1930s, a period I am increasingly convinced most Americans know nothing about. Travellers in the Third Reich is a chronological overview of the history of the Third Reich, supplemented with the accounts of a wide variety of foreign visitors (mostly from the UK and the US). The book doesn’t put forward any grand conclusions. Rather, it offers a new perspective on Germany during this time and a glimpse into the political attitudes around the world. Utterly fascinating and terrifying. No, I don’t think Trump will try to exterminate people like Hitler. But, yes, I do believe he is attempting to lead us to fascism. And that he aspires to be a dictator.

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As the 30s progressed, the drums of war began to sound. Attempts at appeasement only encouraged Hitler to demand more territory for lebensraum that would be cleansed of its Slavic and Jewish populations to make room for German settlers. Even as war drew inevitably closer, travelers to Germany returned convinced that all was well. “Despite the new frost in relations with Britain, despite air-raid [preparation] week, despite the persistent cry of ‘guns before butter’ and despite Hitler’s relentless push for a free hand in Eastern Europe, one distinguished foreigner after another returned home from Germany convinced that war was the last thing on the Führer’s mind.” (p. 268)Comparison with Nagorski’s book is informative, whereas the “Night of the Long Knives” and announcement of 1939’s German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact are major events for his witnesses, mainly reporters and diplomats, they are mentioned by Boyd but not by the travelers she quotes. On the other hand Boyd gives us eyewitness accounts of 1933 book burnings and the 1937 Much “Degenerate Art” exhibit, neither of which I recall in Nagorski. Both books give much emphasis to the 1936 Olympics and 1938’s Kristallnacht. Perhaps the biggest takeaway from this interesting study is just how difficult it is for any individual to discern what is going on without the perspective that hindsight offers. 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.

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Subtitle of the book could be a bit misleading. It promises to show us Hitler's Germany "through the eyes everyday people" but it turns out the majority of those eyes belong to the European nobility, high diplomats, industrialists and artists most of whom were mere passers-by rather than local observers. So the most of what they reported were shallow observations based on what the Nazis wanted to project to the tourists. What did they make of the mistreatment of the Jews in the 1930s? Their own anti-Semitism contributed to an underwhelming response. Many thought that the Germans were justified in wanting less Jewish influence in their society and bought into mainstreamed lies about Jewish citizens' disproportionate or malevolent role. The regime was not successful in hiding their actions from either the local or tourists, but the tourists were more easily fooled. One group was taken to tour Dachau, where "the criminals paraded before them were in fact camp guards in disguise." (2618) Those who were present on Kristallnacht were horrified by the wantonness of the violence, but after that, the Jews disappeared from view, allowing visitors to think very little about them, with the exception of a delegation of American Quakers, who were given the runaround by Nazi officials.

Knygoje rasit visko. Paprasti turistai, menininkai, mokslininkai, politikai, studentai, kvakeriai, rašytotojai. Vieni labai stipriai prijaučiantys kiti bandantys nesivelti į poliką ir naiviomis akimis ignoruojantys kas ne taip. Remiamasi laiškais, dienoraščių įrašais, straipsniais kurie parašyti aplankius Vokietiją. Did anything change in the attitudes of the travelers after their experience? It doesn’t appear so in most cases. People saw what they wanted to see and ignored the things that might have troubled them. It was common early in the 30s for NAZI’s to give tours of work camps such as Dachau. Most travelers were untroubled. Of course they were getting a much sanitized tour in which guards were dressed as prisoners and were not experiencing abuse.

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There are countless books on World War 2, from serious and weighty tomes, stories of daring do and detailed explanations of pivotal moments that changed the course of a continent. Whilst there has been lots of analysis about the failings of the post-World War 1 reparations and oppression by the victors led to the problems that Germany found itself in, there has been very little written about the way it was rapidly changing from the perceptive of holidaymakers and visitors to the country. 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. I found this a fascinating read especially as a follow on to the excellent Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 which I read recently and which showed how the German people were duped by Hitler and ultimately were complicit in what happened once he had supreme power. This brought a different perspective to that as it was based on writings of overseas visitors to the Third Reich. It was striking what a popular destination it was for both British and Americans despite the persecution of the Jews that had started and was clearly going on. It seems that the English upper classes saw Nazi Germany as the lesser of two evils compared to the communist threat from Russia - and thank goodness for Wallis Simpson as Edward VIII would have been a disastrous king for the period that his brother ended up reigning. 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.

Kay Smith, wife of US military attache Colonel Truman Smith, after a visit to the now infamous "Degenerate Art" exhibit in Munich had a reaction which fell in with the intentions of the exhibit's organizers: 'The continuous viewing of ugly distorted faces and forms, with blood and vomit spewing from them - vulgar disgusting scenes - produced a definite physical reaction.' ... Kay, who had been reading articles in the American press condemning Nazi philistinism, was now, on this issue at least, entirely in sympathy with the Führer. 'I heartily supported the name Degenerate Art which Hitler had given it,' she wrote, 'and was delighted when he announced that "the era of the purple cow" was over.' (276) Itin įdomus olimpiados aprašymas. Moterys, juodi atletai ir žydai, žinoma turėjo daug prastesnes sąlygas kai tuo metu baltieji arijai vyrai valgė steikus ir gyveno prabangoje. Hitleris tai pat atsisakė spausti ranką kai laimėjo ne tie.