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The Third Reich of dreams : the nightmares of a nation

Beradt, Charlotte2025
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Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these 'diaries of the night' in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them out of the country one by one.
Main title:
The Third Reich of dreams : the nightmares of a nation / Charlotte Beradt ; preface by Dunya Mikhail ; translated by Damion Searls.
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
Collation:
152 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780691243511 (hbk)
Dewey class:
135.3
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
3045717
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