![]() ![]() But even more telling are the experiences of ordinary travellers, ranging from pacifist Quakers to Jewish boy scouts African-American academics (one of whom had a remarkable meeting with Hitler) to First World War veterans. Among them are celebrities like Charles Lindbergh, Lloyd George, the Maharajah of Patiala, Francis Bacon, the King of Bulgaria and Samuel Beckett - to name just a few. These questions, and many others, are explored through the personal testimony of foreign visitors to the Third Reich. But what was it like to travel in the Third Reich without the benefit of post-war hindsight? How easy was it then to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust? Images of Nazi atrocities are so powerful that they can never be suppressed or set aside. ![]() For anyone born after the Second World War, it has always been impossible to view this period with detachment. Scores of previously unpublished diaries and letters have been tracked down to present a vivid new picture of Nazi Germany that will enhance - even challenge - the reader’s current perceptions. Based on first-hand accounts written by foreigners, it creates a sense of what it was really like, both physically and emotionally, to travel in Hitler’s Germany. ![]() Travellers in the Third Reich tells us what happened in Germany between the wars but in a novel way. ![]()
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