Travels in the Reich, 1933-45

by Lubrich, Oliver

• ISBN13: 9780226496290
• ISBN10: 0226496295
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-31
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Through the eyes of foreign authors, this collection offers a new perspective on the horrifying details of German life under Nazism, in accounts as gripping and well-written as a novel, but bearing all the weight of historical witness.

Author Biography

Oliver Lubrich is junior professor of rhetoric at the Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin.

Table of Contents

Journeys to the End of the Night	p. l
About This Anthology	p. 19
Editorial Pointers	p. 21
Acknowledgments	p. 23
1933 to 1939
Goodbye to Berlin	p. 27
Hitler in the Elevator	p. 33
Why Could the Nazis Come?	p. 37
Hitler Needs a Woman	p. 41
The Sick Man of Europe	p. 53
A Sort of Simultaneity	p. 55
"Are You Still Alive?"-30 June 1934	p. 57
The Miracle of Life	p. 65
On the Rhine with Mitzi	p. 73
Harvest Festival, 1935	p. 77
The Dream of Sixty Million People	p. 79
A Party for Tom	p. 91
"I Have a Thing to Tell You"	p. 97
Into the Bottomless Pit	p. 133
What of the Color-Line?	p. 135
HH Without Ceasing	p. 153
A Race of Thieves	p. 157
The Germans Really Are Too Good	p. 159
A Visit to Heinrich Heine	p. 163
The Yellow Face	p. 167
Göring's Cup	p. 169
A Demonstration against the War	p. 173
Kristallnacht	p. 175
Berlin in the Summer of 1939	p. 179
1939 to 1945
Counterattack	p. 199
Audience	p. 203
Fevered German Dreams	p. 205
At Göring's Table	p. 219
Half Moon and Swastika	p. 221
The Germans' Mood Swings	p. 235
In the Wild West Bar	p. 241
Special Press Conference, 9 October 1941	p. 255
The Heaven of Nieflheim	p. 265
"The Enemy Is Listening!"	p. 269
At the Lion's Tail	p. 275
Don't Throw Stones at the Pianist!	p. 281
In the Dying City	p. 287
"Tomorrow I Have to Go Back to the Camp"	p. 291
"Will Exchange Skillet for Picture of the Führer"	p. 293
Carpet Bombing	p. 301
Leipzig Is Dead!	p. 305
The Sky Is Red	p. 311
Children's Games	p. 315
Nineveh Is a Great City	p. 319
"I Must Speak to the Führer!"	p. 325
Crispbread from Stockholm	p. 331
Twilight of the Gods	p. 333
The Final Days	p. 337
The First "Amerikanski" in Berlin	p. 339
The Propaganda Minister's Corpse	p. 345
Cry for Vengeance	p. 347
Eighth of May 1945	p. 351
Chronology	p. 353
Sources	p. 355
Bibliography	p. 363
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