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Diary of a Man in Despair
Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
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This is a prophetic insight into the psychotic soul of Nazi Germany, written by a Prussian aristocrat in the years between 1936 and 1944. It charts the rise of Hitler and the blind allegiance of the masses to his suicidal cause.
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Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
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Hard to pick just one quote from this book, appallingly timely in its observations applied to current events, 90 years later.

“With his oily hair falling into his face as he ranted, he had the look of a man trying to seduce the cook. I got the impression of basic stupidity, the same kind of his crony Papen - the kind of stupidity which equates statemanshio with cheating at a horse trade.”

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Leftcoastzen
Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
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My highest praise. It is written as diary entries, what is happening to him & society as Hitler rises to power. He sees the stupidity,the cruelty,the arrogance.How such a regime destroys everything in its wake .The past ,the present,the future.Unfortunately, It is too relevant in this particular moment. Very moving, so glad I read it. I had heard of it years ago, then Tim Miller mentioned it in The Bulwark podcast.Beautiful writing,sharp insights

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Leftcoastzen
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Someone recommended this book to Tim Miller of The Bulwark, he added to footnotes, I borrowed it. Originally published in 1947, Reck details the rise of Hitler and Nazism with appropriate horror. I‘m only a bit into it , this paragraph !

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Recommended. Like all autobiography or memoir, you have to retain some skepticism for what the author says about himself. But the feeling you get for the times in which he lived is evocative. His scathing descriptions of the "mass-men" who led to the rise of the Nazi Part and who supported it are so very well-written and observed. Reck is a great, witty, and articulate storyteller.

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This came in today's mail! Friedrich Reck was a Prussian aristocrat. To him, democracy was a farce and the citizenry. But he left a journal of the years the Nazis were in power. A period when a demagogue manipulated the people's need for economic security, when he appealed to racism and enlisted the the worst impulses of patriotic fervor to support his regime. A time when... Excuse me, I need to go purchase a journal and start writing.