087797
Harmondsworth
1974
11×18
meki
663
engleski
Cijena: 18,00 EUR
This is a seminal work that explores everyday life in Nazi Germany. Rather than focusing exclusively on high politics or military battles, Grunberger analyzes how the totalitarian regime permeated every aspect of the ordinary citizen's existence. The book is divided into thematic chapters covering different social spheres: Education and Youth: A detailed account of indoctrination through the Hitler Youth and changes in the school and university systems. Women and Family: A focus on the Nazi ideal of "Children, Kitchen, Church" and the regime's impact on birth rates, divorce, and sexuality. Everyday Culture: An analysis of humor, language (e.g., "Hitler butter" for margarine), cinema, theater, and the arts under censorship. Professions and Work: How doctors, lawyers, artists, and farmers navigated the system of "coordination" (Gleichschaltung). Social Extremes: From the aristocracy to the systematic persecution and extermination of the Jews. Richard Grunberger (1924–2005) was an Austrian-born British historian who fled to England via the Kindertransport after the Anschluss in 1938. His style is anecdotal, rich in statistics and often tinged with irony, using primary sources such as diaries, letters and newspapers of the time. The book has been praised for its depiction of the "banality" of evil in everyday life. Grunberger highlights absurd situations such as one in which a 22% increase in the birth rate immediately after Hitler came to power was interpreted as a "biological vote of confidence" in the regime.
