{"title":"Milton Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the compelling works of Milton Mayer, an insightful author renowned for his profound explorations in the realms of history and political science. Mayer's expertise shines through in his riveting accounts, providing readers with in-depth perspectives on historical events and their impacts on society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMayer's most notable work, \u003cem\u003eThey Thought They Were Free – The Germans, 1933–45\u003c\/em\u003e, delves into the lives of ten ordinary Germans living under the Nazi regime. With a unique narrative style, Mayer offers a poignant examination of how authoritarianism can subtly shape individuals' behaviours and beliefs. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the socio-political dynamics of one of history's most turbulent periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngage with Mayer's writings for a well-rounded view of historical events, enriched by his journalistic precision and humanistic approach. His works are essential for readers passionate about history and military studies, providing not only factual accounts but also thought-provoking analyses of the human experience during times of upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"they-thought-they-were-free-the-germans-193345-by-milton-mayer-9780226525839","title":"They Thought They Were Free – The Germans, 1933–45","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.”\n\nThat’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of \u003cem\u003eThey Thought They Were Free\u003c\/em\u003e. He’s right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did—what we’ve seen over decades is that any time people, across the political spectrum, start to feel that freedom is threatened, the book experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest. And that interest has never been more prominent or potent than what we’ve seen in the past year.\n\n\u003cem\u003eThey Thought They Were Free\u003c\/em\u003e is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” “These ten men were not men of distinction,” Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune.\n\nA new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. \u003cem\u003eThey Thought They Were Free\u003c\/em\u003e cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796916457708,"sku":"9780226525839","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17486673482268.jpg?v=1757116331"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/milton-mayer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}