Jonathan Steinberg

Coming of age in Nazi Germany

Konrad H. Jarausch’s Broken Lives, about coming of age in Nazi Germany, shows women of all ages describing their belief in Hitler in mystical terms

  • Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century

    Konrad H. Jarausch

    Princeton, pp. 464

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