Synopses & Reviews
This acclaimed book examines popular responses to Nazi policy and ideology, exploring the political mentality of 'ordinary Germans' in one part of Hitler's Reich during the Nazi dictatorship.
Review
"Excellent....Will certainly be welcomed as an indispensable tool for the research of German social history during the Nazi era."--Studies in Contemporary Jewry
"[A] fascinating and disturbing book."--German Studies Review
"A most welcome and provocative addition to the growing literature to the growing literature on the internal history of Nazi Germany."--Journal of Modern History
"[An] excellent regional study."--New York Review of Books
"One of the most impressive works of scholarship that I have read in a long time....Blending daunting erudition, lucid prose and a sensitive feel for his subject...It is a disturbing and an important book which should be read by anyone concerned with the fate of the ordinary man in the twentieth century."--History Today