Drawing exclusively on interviews and personal letters and diaries from
the earliest days of the Nazi party to the final hours of the
thousand-year Reich, this book reveals how the Hitler cult influenced
and corrupted every aspect of public life. Every part of German life was
shaped by its malign influence education, health, business, the press,
the judicial system, the church, sport, the arts, work, the family.The
stark contrast between the myth of One People, One Fuhrer perpetuated by
Nazi propaganda and the harsh realities of life in the Third Reich are
laid bare in this compelling study.True-life stories of ordinary Germans
and their lives in Hitler s Germany. Challenges the popular view of Nazi
Germany as a nation unified behind their despotic leader, and asks 'What
would you have done if you had been in their shoes?', Includes
photographs scattered throughout text."