What was Nazi Germany really like in the run up to the Second World War? Julia Boyd’s painstakingly researched and deeply nuanced book shows how this troubled country appeared to travellers of the 1930s who did not have the benefit of hindsight. A truly fascinating read” -- Keith Lowe, Sunday Times bestselling author of Savage Continent and Inferno Many of the children are shown to have been indoctrinated into total belief and a lots of Obersdorf residents are killed during WW2 fighting with the Mountain Division or in the death camps.

Travellers in the Third Reich is a chronological overview of the history of the Third Reich, supplemented with the accounts of a wide variety of foreign visitors (mostly from the UK and the US). The book doesn’t put forward any grand conclusions. Rather, it offers a new perspective on Germany during this time and a glimpse into the political attitudes around the world. Personal economic circumstances. In the short term, Hitler took Germany from desperation to prosperity and people were feeling much better. Sounds a lot like the 401(k) Trumpers. Boyd using unpublish diaries is able to follow the lives of the villagers and their day to day encounters with the rise of the Nazis, through to the end of the war when the village was occupied first by the French and then the Americans. What emerges is a picture is how some supported the Nazis other adapted to survive and how some knew it was best not to say what they thought out aloud. Dirda, Michael (29 August 2018). "Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists". The Washington Post . Retrieved 15 December 2022. Hitler’s Nazism exfoliates. Criticism is silenced to begin with. “Hostile criticism from a German was suicide—more often economic, sometimes physical,” notes the British journalist and author Owen Tweedy, driving across Germany with a friend from Cambridge University soon after Hitler’s inauguration. But, apart from a handful of leftist writers, visitors like Tweedy remain confused about it all. Tweedy opines that, despite having a streak of “hysterical madness”, Hitler is not a “bad man”, and considers Nazism as ushering Germany into a modern and more vigorous phase.I recently read Julia Boyd's Travellers in the Third Reich which gave outsider impressions of pre war Germany which was good but this one was in another league.

Yet it was interesting to see further evidence of the fact that only the communists were able to immediately recognise the actual essence of fascism and fight against it at a time when the European bourgeoisie tailed Hitler or tried to accommodate it at best. It was tragic to see that the Nazi extermination campaign against the communists, socialists, Jewish were experienced as a mere nuisance by the visitors.If you have an interest in Weimar and Third Reich history, enjoy histories with views from the bottom—of how real people experience it—or like travel writing, you can’t go wrong with this thoroughly compelling book. Julia Boyd weaves together stories and anecdotes with such skill and fluidity, reading her account seemingly takes no effort whatsoever. It’s like sitting down with a good storyteller. We know where this story will eventually end, but the stories she recounts seem so fresh because they are written from the points of view of the travelers in their times, not “with the clarity of post-war hindsight.” Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 by Julia Boyd". Publishers Weekly. 2018-06-25 . Retrieved 2023-04-13. Hoyer, Katja (16 April 2022). "A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd review — how a Bavarian community experienced the rise and fall of Hitler". The Times . Retrieved 15 December 2022.