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Fresh air and fascism in the Bavarian Alps

14 May 2022

9:00 AM

14 May 2022

9:00 AM

A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism Julian Boyd and Angelika Patel

Elliott & Thompson, pp.416, 25

The village of Oberstdorf lies in the Bavarian Alps, geographically remote but, as this gripping book demonstrates, deeply etched by the politics and violence of the Third Reich. Julia Boyd and Angelika Patel have used diaries, letters, newspaper reports and the official papers of Oberstdorfers as a lens through which to look at the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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