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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, more and more archival sources relating to World War II have come to light. This book is based on a cache of letters to Hitler that had been stored in Berlin and were removed to the Soviet Union at the end of the war. The majority of the letters in the book are either congratulations to Hitler, often on the occasion of his birthday, or requests--for anything from an autograph, to having Hitler become a child's godfather, to a grant of honorary German status. The congratulatory letters tend to be very similar and it becomes tedious to read them. It was telling, though, to read how precipitately the number of such letters declined from the late 1930s, and to read that in the seven weeks after the invasion of Poland that caused the declaration of war against Germany by the Allies, Hitler received only 18 letters; a vivid contrast to the far-greater number of letters received on the occasions of the Austrian Anschluss or the annexation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. It's far more interesting to read the few letters reproduced here that are not congratulations or, essentially, fan requests. The one that most struck me was from Franz Ippisch, who wrote from Vienna immediately after the Austria was joined into the German Reich. Ippisch wrote that he and his family had been "entranced" by Hitler's "great and brilliant act" of the Anschluss, but were quickly disturbed to find that his Jewish wife would not be permitted to vote in favor of joining Austria to the Reich. Though Ippisch describes his wife as a faithful spouse, an excellent companion and mother and a dutiful German woman, he also refers to her "unfortunate Semitic descent." He writes to Hitler to ask that he "set aside the disgrace of my wife's Jewish ancestry." Fortunately, Ippisch emigrated to Guatemala before finding out what was the more likely result of his wife's descent. Truly striking letters like Ippisch's are few and far between in this collection. I suppose it's not surprising that a collection of letters to any world leader--even Hitler--would be largely pretty banal stuff and offer only limited insights into how ordinary Germans were caught up in Nazism. For more thoroughgoing studies of how ordinary Germans felt about Hitler and the Nazi regime and what they knew of the regime's actions and plans, I recommend books like Claudia Koonz's The Nazi Conscience and Robert Gellately's Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Selección comentada de cartas que el pueblo alemán escribió a Hitler desde 1925 a 1945. Las cartas proceden de los antiguos archivos soviéticos, abiertos ahora. La obra es importante para intentar comprender cómo un pueblo como el alemán quedó tan profundamente sometido a la personalidad de un sólo hombre. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to Russia by the Soviet Secret Police at the end of the war. The letters range from gushing love letters ... to letters from teachers, students, priests, businessmen and others expressing gratitude for alleviating poverty or restoring dignity to the German people. There are a few protest letters and the occasional desperate plea to release a loved one from a concentration camp, but the overwhelming majority are positive and even rapturous, shedding fresh light on the nature of the Hitler cult in Nazi Germany. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Gratulationen, Dank und beste Wünsche, wenn man dieses Konvolut zusammenfasst, bleibt der Eindruck, Menschen damals waren religiös neu aufgeladen und der alte Kaiserglauben feierte fröhliche Urstände. Alles in die Hand des Führers legen, nichts mehr denken, das herrliche Deutschland schaffen. Alle sind überzeugt von der Größe des Allgewaltigen, sie streiten für ihn, kämpfen und trachten um den finalen Sieg, komm zu uns, erlöse uns, die Texte sind oft wirklich unerträglich kindlich und irrsinnig gläubig.
Kollektiv sozialistischer, religiös verbrämter Allmachtsglaube, der Panzer der göttlichen Liebe mit dem Gesandten Gottes auf der Erde: Besser als viele theoretische Abhandlungen vermitteln diese Briefe eine Geschichte des Dritten Reiches, dessen Verblendungen und unerträglichen, emotionalen Allmachtsphantasien. Dabei werden die Briefe zum Ende hin bzw. mit dem Krieg durchaus auch kritisch, aber immer hoffend.
Als Beispiel für den Irrsinn das Gedicht einer Witwe:
„Es liegt ein Schatz auf dem Erdenwall
seine Werte beschirmt ein hoher Wall,
Gewaltig ist er vom Feinde begehrt und in der Stille verehrt,
Mischrassen und fremde Völker munkeln
vom Stehlen der Werte, wenn die Tage dunkeln
Deutschland aber lässt sich nicht zerreißen,
seine Glieder wird der Führer zusammenschweißen,
die fremden Herzen bluten sich wund,
die Sehnsucht nach Habgier bezeuget ihr Mund,
gefrässig und tierisch sind ihre Gestalten,
der rein deutsche Besitze bleibt uns doch erhalten
sie stehen bereit mit Giftbomben und Speer,
wir fürchten sie nicht, wir greifen zur Wehr,
wir vertrauen dem Führer, dem Deutschland-Lenker, dem Gottgesandten, dem edeln Denker,
Sieg Heil, dir schöner deutscher Staat,
Groß Deutschland vertraut seiner eigenen Sach.“ ( )