Last Train From Berlin An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War

by Smith, Howard K.

• ISBN13: 9781842122143
• ISBN10: 1842122142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-30
• Publisher: Phoenix

Summary

The memoirs of one of America's most distinguished correspondents--now with a new introduction and previously unpublished photos. Howard K. Smith worked as a young reporter in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power, and for the first two years of the Second World War. Finally granted a visa to leave the country--coincidentally on December 7th, 1941--he wrote everything censors had forbidden about the physical, emotional, and psychological manipulation of the German people by Hitler, Goebbels, and their lackeys. His personal experiences under difficult circumstances are extraordinary enough, but his descriptions of people forced to join the war, compulsory Nazi Youth groups, and of the German high command read like a chilling thriller.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Intimate History of an Attitude	1	(28)
Myth's Progress	29	(27)
Dr. Dietrich Goes to Town	56	(27)
The Economics of Decline	83	(22)
Valhalla in Transition	105	(24)
The eternal Jew	129	(23)
The White Peril	152	(26)
The End of the Nazi Revolution	178	(24)
The Elements of Conflict	202	(28)
How to Win Wars and Beat Nazis	230	(25)
A Farewell to Berlin	255