A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
by Julia Boyd (with Angelika Patel)
Starting with locals coming back from fighting in World War I, A Village in the Third Reich is a really interesting, close look at how inhabitants of the German mountain village of Oberstdorf in Bavaria responded to the rise of Nazism.
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