Travellers in the Third Reich

The Rise of Fascism Through The Eyes of Everyday People

Julia Boyd

Having read it

★★★☆☆

Well, I didn’t read it all and aside from the book being well-written and well-researched I just ran out of steam maintaining interest in the many travelling perspectives. An interesting angle but would have helped, in my view, being a bit shorter.

A good passage

[...] Goebbel’s next propaganda stunt must have given enthusiasts pause for thought. The ceremonial burning of books in Germany’s thirty-odd university towns laid bare Nazi intentions, recalling Heinrich Heine’s famous words: ‘Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen [Where they burn books, they will end by burning people].’