Volume 4, Number 5 · April 8, 1965
Middletown, Germany
By Walter Laqueur
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1930-1935
by William Sheridan Allen
Quadrangle Books, 345 pp., $6.95
Mr. William Sheridan Allen, a student of history from Evanston, Illinois, went in the early 1950s to a small town in the former kingdom of Hanover to write about its history during the fateful years 1930-1935. I happen to know from experience that authors are not always responsible for what is printed on the dust jackets of their books; this one claims that the German townspeople revealed their innermost thoughts to Mr. William Sheridan Allen. Few people are willing to share with strangers their innermost thoughts on any subject; it is hard to imagine small-town Germans being frank and open when asked by an American student in search of material to reminiscence about their own and their neighbor's doings under the Nazis.
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