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Germans Into Nazis by Peter Fritzsche
3.0
informative reflective medium-paced

 Germans Into Nazis takes a great look at regular German people can become Nazis. Fritzsche uses all modes of media in his book as sources. The narrative Fritzsche uses are photographs that connect with the time periods he is discussing. The book is split up into four chapters, or time periods, that are: July 1914, November 1918, January 1933, and May 1933. These are key dates Fritzsche believes reflects the different changes of the German population.

*These are some of my notes from class
- Reflecting back to German history, the Unification of Germany happened in 1871 so Germany is fairly young.
- "Volk" develops over time and it was seen as political legitimacy.
- Nazism does not equal facism. Emotion was a binding factor for nazism.
- Nazi campaigns were not based on foreign policy. There were so many German political parties, the Nazi party had to use other things to separate themselves.
- Nazis never got the majority of the vote. However, anti-Semitism is not enough to keep people from voting for Hilter. Anti-Semitism was engrained in the people (Germany have a deep history of it as a culture).
- Nazism had racial purity at the centre of its worldview.