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Sebastian Haffner, Journalist und Historiker, schildert das ganz persönliche Erleben einer "interessanten und dramatischen Zeit" zwischen dem Kriegsausbruch 1914 und dem Machtantritt der Nationalsozialisten. Brilliantly observed account of growing up in Berlin between 1914 and 1933. Its rawness, its revelations, its closeness to the events it describes are precisely what make it such a riveting reading today.

This is a memoir of growing up in Berlin between 1914 and 1933, exploring how and why the Germans were seduced by Hitler and the Nazis.