![]() These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history. This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams - but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. We meet the Jews who survived - and those who didn't the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime and a blind boy whose life was judged 'not worth living'. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life - foresters, priests, farmers and nuns innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love courage and weakness action, apathy and grief hope, pain, joy and despair. ![]() Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime.įrom the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. From the author of the bestselling Travellers in the Third Reichcomes A Village in the Third Reich:an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. ![]() Idden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf - a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. ![]() Book Covering Calculators & Technical Colouring Copies & Hardbacks Erasers & Sharpeners Folders & Display Books Lunch Boxes & Drinks Bottles Merit Supplies Office Supplies Pencil Cases & School Bags Pens & Pencils ![]()
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