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When the German historian Sebastian Haffner died in 1999 aged 91, his son discovered the manuscript for this book hidden in a chest of drawers. It had been written in 1939 in England but abandoned when the war broke out. The reasons which made Haffner put it aside - its rawness, its revelations, its closeness to the events it describes - are precisely what makes it such compelling reading today. This memoir of growing up in Berlin between 1914 and 1933 shows how his generation of German youth were seduced by Hitler and the Nazis. The First World War turned Sebastian Haffner, aged seven in 1914, into a fanatical jingoist. The numbing shock of defeat in 1918 is followed by the confusion of revolution and republic, and then the hyperinflation of 1923. The currency is stabilized but, as the 1920s continue, the Weimar Republic fails to capture the imagination of the Germans - whose capacity for private happiness, Haffner believes, has been fatally sapped by the events of 1914-1924. Under the illusion of normality, the Nazi revolution is steadily gaining ground.
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Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner
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- Publicado en
- 2002
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- Título
- Defying Hitler
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Sebastian Haffner
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publicado en
- 2002
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- ISBN10
- 0374161577
- ISBN13
- 9780374161576
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Ciencias políticas & Política, Política, Autobiografías y memorias, Historia militar, Prosa bélica, Alemania, Guerras, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Regalos para abuelo, Memorias, Berlín, Judíos, Nazismo, Primera Guerra Mundial (1914–1918), Historia alemana, Tercer Reich (Alemania nazi), 1933-1945, Adolf Hitler, República de Weimar, Persuasión, Ascenso del fascismo
- Primera publicación
- 2000
- Título original
- Geschichte eines Deutschen. Die Erinnerungen 1914 – 1939
- Calificación
- 4,25 de 5
- Descripción
- When the German historian Sebastian Haffner died in 1999 aged 91, his son discovered the manuscript for this book hidden in a chest of drawers. It had been written in 1939 in England but abandoned when the war broke out. The reasons which made Haffner put it aside - its rawness, its revelations, its closeness to the events it describes - are precisely what makes it such compelling reading today. This memoir of growing up in Berlin between 1914 and 1933 shows how his generation of German youth were seduced by Hitler and the Nazis. The First World War turned Sebastian Haffner, aged seven in 1914, into a fanatical jingoist. The numbing shock of defeat in 1918 is followed by the confusion of revolution and republic, and then the hyperinflation of 1923. The currency is stabilized but, as the 1920s continue, the Weimar Republic fails to capture the imagination of the Germans - whose capacity for private happiness, Haffner believes, has been fatally sapped by the events of 1914-1924. Under the illusion of normality, the Nazi revolution is steadily gaining ground.