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Prevail Until the Bitter End

Germans in the Waning Years of World War II

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Prevail Until the Bitter End

De : Alexandra Lohse
Lu par : Christa Lewis
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In Prevail Until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich. Mobilized for total war, soldiers and citizens alike experienced an unprecedented convergence of military, economic, social, and political crises.

Lohse uncovers how Germans experienced life and death, investigates how mounting emergency conditions affected their understanding of the nature and purpose of the conflagration, and shows how these factors influenced the people's relationship with the Nazi regime. She draws on Nazi morale and censorship reports, features citizens' private letters and diaries, and incorporates a large body of Allied intelligence, including several thousand transcripts of surreptitiously recorded conversations among German prisoners of war in Western Allied captivity.

Lohse's historical reconstruction helps us understand how ordinary Germans interpreted their experiences as both the victims and perpetrators of extreme violence. We are immersively drawn into their desolate landscape. Prevail Until the Bitter End is about the stories that Germans told themselves to make sense of this world in crisis.

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    Drawing from POW interrogations and bugged connections, from Sicherheitsdienst (SD) reports and from letters and reported conversations and gossip, Dr Lohse has written a condensed but wide-ranging account of the German people’s attitudes (military and civilian) from the fall of Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin. It is, as we might expect, varied in tone and opinions. A few commonalities emerge however: disaffection with the regime and high-ranking Nazis was high, while many Germans still expressed faith in Hitler and his wisdom. As tales of the atrocities committed by the SS in the East spread, so did fear of retribution by the Soviets, the Poles and the Jews, which encouraged many Germans to keep fighting. Total mobilisation was popular…until the population realised that the local and national party elites and wealthy families were exempt. The Nazis had tried to replace class conflict with race persecution, but as war brought out ever more class inequalities, class resentment came raging back.

    As the book draws on, what emerges is a German self-provoked and self-fulfilled tragedy almost everyone knew was happening. Many Germans realised early on that they were going down the wrong path, a criminal path even, but no broad enough movement emerged to stop or correct it. By 1943 it was too late.

    I regret that there are only cursory links made between the events of the war and the reactions of the people, except in the case of Stalingrad (an entire chapter). I also wish there had been more attention paid to passive and active opposition, with examples, e.g. listening to the BBC, youth opposition, desertions (and not only gossip and conspiracies about deserters).

    The narration was excellent, including very good German pronunciation.

    A short book that covers a lot of territory

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