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The Good Germans

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After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families.

They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbours, and tried to work out what was really happening in the Reich, surrounded as they were by Nazi propaganda and fake news. They lived in constant fear. Yet many ordinary Germans found the courage to resist. Catrine Clay argues that it was a much greater number than was ever formally recorded. Her ground-breaking book focuses on six very different characters. They are not seen in isolation but as part of their families. Each experiences the momentous events of Nazi history as they unfold in their own small lives - Good Germans all.

Critics Review

Historians have long grappled with the question of how popular the Nazis really were ... The Good Germans suggests that there was much more resistance than was ever formally recorded ... The Good Germans shines the spotlight on people who didn't opt for the path of conformity, but instead made often small but nonetheless defiant choices in their everyday lives that put them at risk ... [Clay] is a great story-teller who proves adept at conjuring her characters straight off the page
BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
A brilliant and deeply disturbing account of six individuals, ranging from Prussian aristocrat to law student to factory hand, who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives to oppose Hitler
THE SPECTATOR 'Books of the Year'
Timely, intriguing and extremely well informed
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'Pick of the Week'
Author Catrine Clay
Narrator Karen Cass
Duration 15 hours and 24 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781474618359
Format x-book®
Publisher Orion
Genre Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, Oral history, Second World War
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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