Lucy Lethbridge

Fresh air and fascism in the Bavarian Alps

Oberstdorf, a remote farming village turned health resort, provides a microcosm for studying the appeal of Nazism in rural communities

A 1938 travel brochure promotes Oberstdorf as a fashionable ski resort. [Getty Images]

  • A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism

    Julia Boyd and Angelika Patel

    Elliott & Thompson, pp. 416, £25

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