Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books Classics)

Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books Classics)

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the authorâ€™s own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, â€œone of the most important documents of the Hitler periodâ€ but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590175866
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2013-02-12
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781590175866

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