{"product_id":"9780253111234","title":"Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: The Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim","description":"\u003cp\u003eHildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. Ordinary\u003cbr\u003e Germans in Extraordinary Times is a carefully drawn account of how townspeople went\u003cbr\u003e about their lives and reacted to events during the Nazi era. Andrew Stuart Bergerson\u003cbr\u003e argues that ordinary Germans did in fact make Germany and Europe more fascist, more\u003cbr\u003e racist, and more modern during the 1930s, but they disguised their involvement\u003cbr\u003e behind a pre-existing veil of normalcy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBergerson details a way\u003cbr\u003e of being, believing, and behaving by which \"ordinary Germans\" imagined\u003cbr\u003e their powerlessness and absence of responsibility even as they collaborated in the\u003cbr\u003e Nazi revolution. He builds his story on research that includes anecdotes of everyday\u003cbr\u003e life collected systematically from newspapers, literature, photography, personal\u003cbr\u003e documents, public records, and especially extensive interviews with a representative\u003cbr\u003e sample of residents born between 1900 and 1930. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book\u003cbr\u003e considers the actual customs and experiences of friendship and neighborliness in a\u003cbr\u003e German town before, during, and after the Third Reich. By analyzing the customs of\u003cbr\u003e conviviality in interwar Hildesheim, and the culture of normalcy these customs\u003cbr\u003e invoked, Bergerson aims to help us better understand how ordinary Germans\u003cbr\u003e transformed \"neighbors\" into \"Jews\" or\u003cbr\u003e \"Aryans.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067816263920,"sku":"9780253111234","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253111234_p0.jpg?v=1763680518","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253111234","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}