A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

by Christopher B. Krebs

Book Overview

The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393062651
• ISBN13: 9780393062656
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.2"