Book · 2013 · History
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
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There's a book I come back to again and again when trying to puzzle out my own path forward in these unsettling times. It's titled They Thought They Were Free, and the author was a Jewish American progressive journalist and educator named Milton Meyer.
What they say about it
- Interviews with former Nazis“talks to like former Nazis”2
- Value of the book“book is so valuable”2
The best things said about it
One of the things that I think is most interesting about Meyer's book, They Thought They Were Free, is that like he talks to like former Nazis about that.
And that's why I think I think um Milton Meyer's book is so valuable cuz it basically what he did is he traveled to Germany immediately after the war.
He makes good friends with like 10 male former members of the Nazi party and he titles his book about them They Thought They Were Free.
They thought they were free came out of his confusion that citizens of the VHimar Republic which is again a very progressive state would give up their rights so readily.
Why people recommend it
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer is a compelling journalistic study that examines how ordinary citizens in the Weimar Republic gradually accepted and accommodated themselves to the Nazi regime. On Behind the Bastards, host Robert Evans frequently returned to the book to puzzle out the psychological traps of moral compromise and how nice, normal people ultimately made the Holocaust possible. Evans detailed how Mayer, a Jewish American progressive journalist and educator, traveled to Germany immediately after the war to interview former members of the Nazi party. Through these close interactions with ten male former party members, Mayer sought to understand the deep confusion surrounding how citizens of a progressive state could surrender their rights so readily. Evans praised the book's striking title and its profound value in revealing the internal justifications and self-deceptions of those who participated in fascism, noting that the author captured a chilling perspective on how perpetrators viewed their own actions and freedom during a dark historical era.
Every mention
Robert Evans There's a book I come back to again and again when trying to puzzle out my own path forward in these unsett… 6
“There's a book I come back to again and again when trying to puzzle out my own path forward in these unsettling times. It's titled They Thought They Were Free, and the author was a Jewish American progressive journalist and educator named Milton Meyer.”
“Um, and one of the things that I think is most interesting about Meyer's book, They Thought They Were Free, is that like he he talks to like former Nazis about that.”
“little Nazis is a is a term that I'm actually stealing from a um a very controversial book by an author named Milton Sanford Meyer.”
“And that's why I think I think um Milton Meyer's book is so valuable cuz it basically what he did is he traveled to Germany immediately after the war.”
“and he makes good friends with like 10 male former members of the Nazi party and he titles his book about them they thought they were free and we'll talk a little bit about that title later but I think it's one of my f my favorite titles for any book um now there's a lot of good critiques about”
“they thought they were free came out of his confusion that citizens of the VHimar Republic which is again a very progressive state would give up their rights so readily”
