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Looking for a book I've only heard of, not read (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi!

Looking for a book that I know very little about. I heard from a Dan Carlin podcast a while ago about some stories compiled into a book. It was about people's memoirs of pre-WWII Germany, like 1920s and 30s, and specifically them trying to and sometime successfully leaving Germany for various other places.

Sorry, I have very few details about it. Any chance someone knows what it is?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I know of this one because it is pretty famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

I've read people's memoirs of escaping that regime but not a book about the memoirs of that period as a subject.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh cool, this is maybe what I was referring to anyway. Thanks for the link! I'll be grabbing this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Check out this one too, it has a less defeatist attitude while also being practical and technically useful.

https://beehaw.org/post/17067834

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Whoa. You are amazing. Adding that to my read list.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

NP, let me know if you need a copy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Here's another suggestion I got about this

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780140020403/German-Short-Stories-Deutsche-Kurzgeshichten-0140020403/plp