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Rome753
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Pickpick

Very interesting book. It examines the events of 1923 in the Weimar Republic, the events that lead up to them, and they're effects. While it focuses on the political, economic, and international events, various cultural and personal effects are examined. Definitely recommend.

Amiable My youngest son took a history class in high school that covered the unification of Germany, the Weimar Republic, etc —up to the WWII. The entire point of the class was to answer the question, “Why the Third Reich?” He said it was the most interesting history course he ever had. (edited) 7d
Rome753 @Amiable That sounds very interesting! It sounds very similar to a class I had taken. I'm sure the course your son took was very interesting. 7d
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Leftcoastzen
Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
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#12BooksOf2025 May just wow, Friedrich would be considered a conservative and an aristocrat but his diary is spot on about the evil, stupidity, and cruelty of the rise of the Third Reich. His diary starts in 1936. It was called “One of the most important documents of the Hitler period “ by Hannah Arendt , the New York Review of Books has this lovely edition. One of my top of the year!

TheEllieMo I did not know this book existed! Thank you for bringing it to my attention 1w
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Amiable
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After several complaints because the Men‘s Book Group is the only one at our library that regularly reads nonfiction (and they won‘t let me attend — I‘ve asked), they finally created a “Nonfiction for Fiction Readers” group with the intent of reading narrative nonfiction. Huzzah! 🥳 These are the books for the first quarter.

Ruthiella Nice work! 2w
lil1inblue Huzzah, indeed! 2w
dabbe Poo on the patriarchy! Yay for this BC! 🩵🤍💙 2w
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Amiable @dabbe I‘m actually a bit irritated at the “nonfiction for FICTION readers” label. Like they think they can‘t attract women to a NF group without coaxing them with a promise the books will read like fiction? I‘m over here like “HELLO…” 2w
Scochrane26 That is ridiculous, @Amiable. Glad you‘re trying to change things. BTW, I really liked In the Garden of Beasts because it educated me a lot. It‘s scarily like what‘s been happening now. 2w
Amiable @Scochrane26 I have already read “Beasts” — a few years ago, but I‘m re-reading to be able to discuss in January. You‘re right —it‘s scary how relevant it is to the present! 😖😬 2w
AnnCrystal 🎉📚 Bravo 👏🏼🥳👍🏼📚💝💝💝. 2w
dabbe @Amiable So agree! Do they think we only read Harlequin romances? 🤣 2w
ferskner As a librarian who used to run book clubs, this is so lame! Why didn't they just create a nonfiction book club? Good for you got pushing back, though! 1w
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PaperbackReader
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“If people knew the truth of history there would never be another Great War.” Truer words never rang like they do right now.

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bibliothecarivs
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Random book from our personal library.

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Rome753
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Up next for reading

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TheBookgeekFrau
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Mehso-so

While Schönhaus' story of living in Berlin under the Nazi regime as a Jewish document forger is interesting, the writing was just so, so bad.

88/80

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Soooo frustrating when a good story is told poorly!! 1mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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"My survival is the result of events in which the 'law of large numbers' played the major part."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheBookgeekFrau
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This reading is inspired by The Book of Lost Names that piqued my interest in the people who forged documents in WWII. Shout out to @Offmybookshelf for finding this book and passing it on to me ❤️

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readswellwithothers
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These were also fantastic reads with Mom! The Immense World audio was marvelously narrated by the author; even through the science-heavy bits, his enthusiasm was engaging. Mom and I bring this one up a lot, and it was really fun to discuss the book as we read it.

Erik Larson is top-notch for making non-fiction feel like a thriller novel! This one isn‘t my favorite of his, but still compelling.

Lots of ongoing thoughts about all of these!