The Resource An iron wind : Europe under Hitler, Peter Fritzsche
An iron wind : Europe under Hitler, Peter Fritzsche
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- Summary
- "Unlike World War I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front, World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the war effort, and in the end, the vast majority of the war's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe--the war's deadliest killing ground--experienced forced labor, deportation, mass executions, and genocide. As direct targets of and witnesses to violence, rather than far-off bystanders, civilians were forced to face the war head on. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, fiction, and other first-person accounts, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche redefines our understanding of the civilian experience of war across the vast territory occupied and threatened by Nazi Germany. Amid accumulating horrors, ordinary people across Europe grappled with questions of faith and meaning, often reaching troubling conclusions. World War II exceeded the human capacity for understanding, and those men and women who lived through it suspected that language could not adequately register the horrors they saw and experienced. But it nevertheless prompted an outpouring of writing, as people labored to comprehend and piece thoughts into philosophy. Their broken words are all we have to reconstruct how contemporaries saw the war around them, how they failed to see its terrible violence in full, and how they attempted to translate the destruction into narratives. Carefully reading these testimonies as no historian has done before, Fritzsche's groundbreaking work sheds new light on the most violent conflict in human history, when war made words inadequate, and the inadequacy of words heightened the devastation of war"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 356 pages
- Contents
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- Talk in Wartime
- Hitler Means War!
- A New Authoritarian Age?
- Living with the Germans
- Journey to Russia
- The Fate of the Jews
- The Life and Death of God
- The Destruction of Humanity
- Broken Words
- Isbn
- 9780465057740
- Label
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- Title
- An iron wind
- Title remainder
- Europe under Hitler
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Fritzsche
- Subject
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- Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Influence
- Violence -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- War and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Civilians in war -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, European
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Unlike World War I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front, World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the war effort, and in the end, the vast majority of the war's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe--the war's deadliest killing ground--experienced forced labor, deportation, mass executions, and genocide. As direct targets of and witnesses to violence, rather than far-off bystanders, civilians were forced to face the war head on. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, fiction, and other first-person accounts, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche redefines our understanding of the civilian experience of war across the vast territory occupied and threatened by Nazi Germany. Amid accumulating horrors, ordinary people across Europe grappled with questions of faith and meaning, often reaching troubling conclusions. World War II exceeded the human capacity for understanding, and those men and women who lived through it suspected that language could not adequately register the horrors they saw and experienced. But it nevertheless prompted an outpouring of writing, as people labored to comprehend and piece thoughts into philosophy. Their broken words are all we have to reconstruct how contemporaries saw the war around them, how they failed to see its terrible violence in full, and how they attempted to translate the destruction into narratives. Carefully reading these testimonies as no historian has done before, Fritzsche's groundbreaking work sheds new light on the most violent conflict in human history, when war made words inadequate, and the inadequacy of words heightened the devastation of war"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fritzsche, Peter
- Dewey number
- 940.53
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hitler, Adolf
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Civilians in war
- Violence
- War and society
- Europe
- Label
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler, Peter Fritzsche
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-348) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Talk in Wartime -- Hitler Means War! -- A New Authoritarian Age? -- Living with the Germans -- Journey to Russia -- The Fate of the Jews -- The Life and Death of God -- The Destruction of Humanity -- Broken Words
- Control code
- ocn945232327
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465057740
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)945232327
- Label
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler, Peter Fritzsche
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-348) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Talk in Wartime -- Hitler Means War! -- A New Authoritarian Age? -- Living with the Germans -- Journey to Russia -- The Fate of the Jews -- The Life and Death of God -- The Destruction of Humanity -- Broken Words
- Control code
- ocn945232327
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465057740
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)945232327
Subject
- Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Influence
- Violence -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- War and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Civilians in war -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, European
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe
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