Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008
How Willing Were They?
By Richard J. Evans
Life and Death in the Third Reich
by Peter Fritzsche
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 368 pp., $27.95
Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City
by Gordon J. Horwitz
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 395 pp., $29.95
Almost as soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany, they made the greeting 'Heil Hitler!' a compulsory part of national life. Civil servants were legally obliged to sign documents with it, and anybody writing a letter to officialdom would have been well advised to do the same. Schoolteachers had to greet their classes with a 'Heil Hitler!,' raising their right arm stiffly in the 'German greeting' as they did so; train conductors had to use the greeting when they entered a compartment to collect tickets from passengers.
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