This book delivers on the title's promise of revealing what everyday life was like in Nazi Germany. It is a good introduction to the subject for those new to it and for those more familiar, it has interesting and insightful glimpses into how ordinary Germans lived. The gems are in the minutiae.
The role of American jazz music as a symbol of opposition to the regime, the lack of heating in apartments and how the government brought out the worst in people, among other things, are covered.
But the highlight was the first person stories about life in Nazi Germany. Eycke Strickland's father's inspiring story is unusual and Renata Zerner gives an insight into life in a country in which people lived in fear of being betrayed.
Life in the Third Reich has substance and is easy to read. Roland has written fi d other books about the subject. ( )

An interesting read. I don't think there was much surprise or unexpected information. ( )

Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 by Paul Roland, is an interesting look at the everyday life of a German citizen in the years following Adolph Hitler’s rise to power. Right off, let me say how chilling some of the events in this book are in light of what is happening in the United States right now (July 2018). The similarities are unsettling to say the least.

Roland has clearly spent a great deal of time researching this subject and that combined with excerpts from German citizens, and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer, make this book a must-read for the military historian, and anyone with questions of how did the Nazi regime happen.

I love the personal aspect of the stories found within the pages of Life in the Third Reich. The basic mechanics of the time are well known but due to perhaps guilt, there is not an awful lot written by typical Germans of the time. Most books cover the challenges of the survivors of Hitler’s brutality, leaving the historian to delve deeper in order to find out what the average German was doing, or thinking at the time.

Life in the Third Reich will answer those questions, and perhaps give an insight into what might happen in the US. Impossible? Exactly what the average German thought back in the 30’s.

Reviewed by Daniel L Little July 11 2018 – www.daniellittle.com ( )

This book describes how the German people were brainwashed into supporting Hitler's stance prior to the second world war.
Later, as atrocities were perpetrated, some were so horrified and sickened that they turned away and formed resistance groups.
But even after the war ended and the Nuremberg trials documented the horrors that went on, some people refused to believe anything bad had happened.
Unfortunately some of the non believers are still around today. ( )