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Darkness over Germany

A Warning from History

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Darkness over Germany

By: Amy Buller
Narrated by: Tamsin Greig
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In this powerful audiobook, first published in 1943, Amy Buller recounts the hopes and fears of Germans engulfed in the rise of fascism during the 1930s.

During the years leading up to the outbreak of war, Buller defied her critics and social norms by leading delegations of British intelligentsia to Germany to learn about and confront the appeal of the Nazis.

The audiobook speaks of how Hitler and the Nazis stripped the German people of their freedoms and oppressed them and how young people were swept along with the tide of hate. It tells the stories of the Germans whom Buller met, including their positivity about the forces uniting the country and their terror that Hitler was the man at the helm.

Darkness over Germany is Amy Buller's recollection of these unlikely encounters and her analysis of how national socialism took hold. It tells a remarkable and largely forgotten story of British-German relations in the 1930s. The book speaks resonantly of the need to stay vigilant and maintain dialogue in times of change and discord.

©2017 Amy Buller (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
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Welsh accents? Scouse accents? Ridiculous. Ruins an amazing story

The ridiculous use of scouse and welsh accents ruins this absolute bombshell of a perspective of a many told period.

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history repeating I think so

great insight into the Nazis rose to prominence, people need to give listen to this book and see similarities in today's society

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Terrifying.

I thought this was brilliant. terrifying to think so many people could be tricked and moved into endorsing a regime that came to be responsible for so much evil. I would like to think the world's subsequent reaction against racism will prevent something similar, for I got the impression that after getting away with persecuting the Jews, the apparatus of persecution was in place to start persecuting everyone else. I either forgot or didnt realise the Christians got a hard time, even if it was incomparable in horror and extent to what other groups underwent. However, I see open blaming and scapegoating of ethnic groups in the world today. Western countries happily trade with regimes that allow or even encourage this, and that's nothing to say of the worldwide endorsement of a regimes known to be conducting genocide, and executing murderous suppressions of freedom.
A pandemic came 100 years after the Spanish flu. Let's hope a world war doesn't follow 100 years after 1939.

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