Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening.
It is a fascinating story and a deeply moving one. And it is a story that should make people pause and think—think not only about the Germans, but also about themselves
Writing as a liberal American journalist of German descent and Jewish religious persuasion Mr. Mayer aims—and in the opinion of this reviewer largely succeeds—at scrupulous fairness and unsparing honesty. It is this that gives his book its muscular punch.
Once again the German problem is at the center of our politics. No better, or more humane, or more literate discussion of its underlying nature could be had than in this They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 book.
Mayer was a conscientious objector during World War II but after the war traveled to Germany and lived with German families. Those experiences informed his most influential book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45.
About the Author:
Milton Sanford Mayer (1908-1986) was a journalist and educator. He was the author of about a dozen books.
He studied at the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 but he did not earn a degree; in 1942 he told the Saturday Evening Post that he was "placed on permanent probation for throwing beer bottles out a dormitory window." He was a reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, and the Chicago Evening American. He wrote a monthly column in the Progressive for over forty years. He won the George Polk Memorial Award and the Benjamin Franklin Citation for Journalism.
He worked for the University of Chicago in its public relations office and lectured in its Great Books Program. He also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, and the University of Louisville. He was an adviser to Robert M. Hutchins when Hutchins founded the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 PDF Ebook
Milton Mayer (Author)
· Paperback: 346 pages
· Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 0002- edition (May 19, 1966)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0226511928
· ISBN-13: 978-0226511924
· Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.9 x 8 inches
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