“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.

Review: 'A Village in the Third Reich,' by Julia Boyd and Angelika Patel. NONFICTION: An illuminating look at Hitler's rise to power and how it played out in one Bavarian village.

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 ...

Using unique archival sources, letters and diaries, this is a follow-up to Boyd’s hugely popular Travellers in the Third Reich. Elliott & Thompson Limited , £10.99 , 6 October 2022 , 9781783966639 ...

Bright-eyed and pigtailed, Sonja (Lena Stolze) is an exemplary student. Idealistic and naive, Sonja leads a sheltered life in her West German hometown of Pfilzing in the mid-1970s, but early on in ...

Both Edwald von Kleist, commander of the German forces in Italy, and Walther Funk, Reich minister of economics, tell Dr. Leon Goldensohn—more probing journalist than shrink—that some of their ...

After the war, in New York, she shaped these oneiric fragments into a potent volume, “The Third Reich of Dreams.” A new English edition, translated with crisp clarity by Damion Searls, revives ...

To understand something as enormous as World War II, go small. Focus on one person, one sliver of time, or — as in the terrific “A Village in the Third Reich” — one town. Br… ...