Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsDebate still rages over how much ordinary Germans knew about the concentration camps and the Gestapo's activities during Hitler's reign. Now, in this well-documented and provocative volume, historian ... Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Caitlin - GoodreadsRobert Gellately makes a meticulous and fascinating study of the public side of Nazi terror by seeking to explain the persistence of German popular consent amid increasing state violence -- the only ... Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Mikey B. - GoodreadsThis book raises some significant issues on Hitler's reign over Nazi Germany. For instance the author makes good points (and provides examples) on denunciations which were volunteered by ordinary ... Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Lewis Weinstein - GoodreadsIn his introduction, Gellately sets the premise that Hitler was well received in 1933 by most Germans who applauded his goals of "restoring the grandeur of the Reich" and "cleaning out undesirable ... Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Gina - GoodreadsWhile the information itself is fascinating and eye-opening, the author's diction and how he presents his research is horribly dry and cannot be forced down this reader's eyesockets, so to speak. Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Materreads - GoodreadsIf you want to have a stake in your future or understand how people can allow despots to rule take time to read Gellately's from-the-German-archives-public-records that show 1 in 7 German citizens ... Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Jared - GoodreadsFrightening book in the sense that it shows the way that Germany was polarized in the years between the First and Second World Wars. Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Nick - GoodreadsDon't misread my rather low rating - the argument put forward in this book is both revealing and fascinating, and the research is impeccable. So why only two stars? My problem was that while the ... Read full review
Review: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
User Review - Mike - GoodreadsA look at what the general German population did and did not know, and their actions, during WWII. Newspapers and other documents help to tell the story. Read full review
