Seduced by Hitler: The Choices of a Nation and the Ethics of Survival

by Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes

Book Overview

"A macabrely fascinating work...recommended."--BooklistIt may seem impossible to explain how an entire nation could allow itself to be seduced by a man such as Adolf Hitler. By examining the everyday... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570717427
• ISBN13: 9781570717420
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Don't Read this unless you are ready to think

This is one of the first books that I evedr read regarding the Holocaust. I decided to do this belated review, mainly because I hold this book is such high regard. It tackles alot of issues in a way that is balance and thought provoking. It will challenge you to want to learn more and more...and that is it's beauty. Funny that neither author is a Historian, but this book ranks huge..The title however could have been better.

A new angle

It is a confirmation of the forever true reality that power corrupts and humans are capable of shutting their senses to justice and compassion for others and value for human lives. I recommend the book to citizens living in countries whose government is being poisoned by their own view on how other races or cultures shall live.

Seduced by Hitler thought-provoking and engaging

Boyes and LeBor have very skillfully taken up the debate over the responsibility of everyday Germans (and others under the Third Reich)in the Holocaust.Although the book strays from its study of Germany--spending much of its energy on France, Hungary and, indeed, on the ethical choices Jews were also forced to make--it is a powerful account.In the introduction the authors make a point lost in many studies of the Third Reich: that tyranny relies as much on concensus as terror. They go on to document with depressing detail how everyday Germans under Hitler were not simply cowed into accepting and watching the Reich's crimes, but had far great choices available to them in how they might resist or collaborate. Sadly, many collaborated zealously with little persuasion necessary, and frequently simply for personal profit.This phenomenon, of course, is not unique to Nazi Germany, and it may be this book's highest achievement that it prods the reader to ask the question: "What would I have done?"