“A Village in the Third Reich,” adapted by Julia Boyd from the town’s official history, shows how and why a sober, traditional Bavarian village roped its fate to fascism.

Focusing on one village was a brilliant way to understand the Third Reich on a human, day-to-day level. It wasn't Boyd's idea, though, and she gives full credit to Angelika Patel, the Oberstdorf ...

A Village in the Third Reich grew out of just such a project. A remote Bavarian ski-resort in the Allgäu region, Oberstdorf is Germany’s southernmost village. After the economic devastation of World ...

A portrait of Oberstdorf, a village in Bavaria in southern Germany, between the end of the First World War and the granting of sovereign rights to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1955. Using ...

Why Take A Third Reich Walking Tour In Munich? So, why take this Munich tour? I believe that what makes dark history even worse is when it’s ignored.

As the Nazi regime took hold in Germany, a Jewish journalist in Berlin collected accounts of the dream lives of others—and smuggled them out of the country.

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Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer was a German academic of the old school—proud, dignified, intensely conscious of his high position in the social hierarchy, and convinced of the superiority of Germany ...

British writer Julia Boyd worked with a resident of Oberstdorf, Angelika Patel, building on her research to produce "A Village in the Third Reich." Laurie Hertzel reviews.

How Close Are We to the Third Reich? Day One of the new Trump administration shows that comparisons between MAGA and Hitler's regime are no longer a stretch.