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Diary of a Man in Despair

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author's own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, "one of the most important documents of the Hitler period" but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.

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  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten"@it
  • "Friedrich Reck"

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  • "Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author's own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler."
  • "Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author's own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, "one of the most important documents of the Hitler period" but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world."@en
  • "This is an insight into the psychotic soul of Nazi Germany. Written by a Prussian aristocrat in the years between 1936 and 1944, it charts the rise of Hitler and the blind allegiance of the people to his suicidal cause."@en

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  • "Dagboeken (vorm)"
  • "History"
  • "Tagebuch 1936-1944"@es
  • "History"@en
  • "Tagebuch 1936-1944"
  • "Diaries"
  • "Diaries"@en
  • "Personal narratives"@en
  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "dagbøger"
  • "Memoirs"
  • "Biographies"
  • "Tagebuch"

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  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten. Mit einem biographischen Essay [Friedrich Reck] / von Christine Zeile"
  • "Diario de un desesperado"
  • "Diario de un desesperado"@es
  • "La Haine et la honte [Journal d'un aristocrate allemand 1936-1944]"
  • "Dagboek van een wanhopig mens Getuigenis van een innerlijke emigratie"
  • "La haine et la honte"
  • "Dagboek van een wanhopig mens : getuigenis van een innerlijke emigratie"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten : Zeugnis einer inneren Emigration"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten [Zeugnis einer inneren Emigration]"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten Zeugnis einer inneren Emigration"
  • "Tagebuch eines verzweifelten"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten. Mit einem biographischen Essay / von Christine Zeile"
  • "La haine et la honte : journal d'un aristocrate allemand, 1936-1944"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten : Zeugnis e. inneren Emigration"
  • "La Haine et la honte : ["Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten"]. Traduit de l'allemand par Élie Gabey"
  • "Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten"
  • "La haine et la honte : [journal d'un aristocrate allemand]"
  • "Il tempo dell'odio e della vergogna : (1936-1944) : diario di un aristocratico tedesco antinazista"@it
  • "Il tempo dell'odio e della vergogna : (1936-1944) : diario di un aristocratico tedesco antinazista"
  • "Diary of a Man in Despair"@en
  • "La haine et la honte journal d'un aristocrate allemand, 1936-1944"
  • "Diary of a man in despair"
  • "Diary of a man in despair"@en

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