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What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany: An Oral History | Eric A Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

“But I really don‘t trust them [Germans]….

Singout What do you think of this quote? I‘m curious about more of the context. 2w

lil1inblue "So they all accepted it, silently." We just learn nothing from history. ? 2w

kspenmoll @Singout Rosa Hirsch was in the chapter titled “Jews Who Went Into Hiding. Her parents owned a tobacco store in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1941 they all went into hiding because they heard they were on the list for the next deportation. The authors interviewed over 200 jews & non jews in person & many others answered written surveys about their experiences under Hitler. The ⬇️ (edited) 2w

kspenmoll ⬆️ most telling were the questions about how much the German people knew about the mass murder of European jews while the Holocaust was going on. How & when did they come to know about it? This “study is first to ask systematically a large cross section of the Herman population, both Jewish & non-Jewish…about their brushes with Nazi terror…their knowledge about the mass murder of the Jews”. 2w

Singout That makes sense. Those are really important questions. I‘m listening to “One Day Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This” by Omar el Akkad, and he includes a vivid quote about people standing at the side during the Holocaust, smirking without either resisting the Nazis or actively participating in the destruction. One of my favourite books as a preteen was “The Devil in Vienna,” which paints an excellent picture of this. 2w

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Deblovestoread

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany: An Oral History | Eric A Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

#Magic!onday

I won‘t win the farthest travel distance so am jumping on the time travel train.

Here is the book proof for our travel back to Hitler and fascism. I‘m only part way into it but the parallels are there for all to see and understand if you‘d only care enough to open your eyes a bit to the relentless propaganda.

TheBookHippie This book was so good. 3w

AmyG 🙌🏻 3w

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kspenmoll I am only on p. 134- reading it in bites but it is so worth it! 2w

TieDyeDude 💪 2w

MemoirsForMe ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 2w

dabbe ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2w

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Fiji. It took forever to get there but it was so worth it. Paradise on Earth (edited) 2w

AnnCrystal 💙✊🏼😢✊🏼💙. 2w

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kspenmoll

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | Julian Borger

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This book was so much more in depth than I expected. In an effort to understand his father‘s suicide (his father was sent through an ad to a family in England at age of 11) the author dug deep & retraced the fates of both the children in the adverts & their families. For me his journey elicited contradictory responses in that it was both fascinating & heartbreaking. #NF Highly recommend.

BarbaraBB Great review 1mo

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kspenmoll

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | Julian Borger

Before dinner book & libation. #porchlife

mcctrish We need more of this 1mo

ferskner I want to go to there. 1mo

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 1mo

dabbe 💜🩶🩷 1mo

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kspenmoll

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | Julian Borger

In Mark Twain‘s biography by Ron Chernov, the author gives extensive attention & coverage to Twain‘s eight months in Vienna.

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I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | Julian Borger

I had no idea that 20,000 Jewish refugees from Vienna traveled to Shanghai to escape the Nazis.But in 1941 the Nazi‘s arrived in the face of the notorious Colonial Josef Meisinger, the “Butcher of Warsaw.”His ideas for the solution of the “Jewish problem” scandalized the Japanese, despite the fact that they committed atrocities themselves. Instead they created a 3/4 square mile ghetto fie the Jews,where they were starved & exposed to typhoid.

AnnCrystal ❤️‍🩹😢 “if you can survive it inside yourself“ 🥲💝. 1mo

dabbe Just W😓W. 💛💜🧡 1mo

kspenmoll @AnnCrystal Definitely the critical phrase here. ❤️ 1mo

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Jas16 I had no idea. 1mo

Deblovestoread New to me history. 😢 1mo

TheBookHippie Yes. 1mo

TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kspenmoll Chloe Gong actually mentions it in her books about Shanghai- in the background it‘s just there and I think it‘s one of her most admirable traits. Real history in her books. I‘ve read every Shanghai book on it the library owns I think. Just unreal all the history we don‘t get taught. Even in passing. 1mo

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I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | Julian Borger