We need to raise over a quarter of a million pounds each year for our work to continue and this is only possible with your help. It’s hard to know where this idea originally came from, but the author’s previous book “Travellers in the Third Reich” makes it clear that Hitler and the other top NAZIs were greatly impressed by the writings and speeches of George Bernard Shaw on the topic. There was also a German officer who didn't like the way others were treated and started the help people where he could.

The advantage of approaching the subject through the “microcosm” of one village, however, helps to provide a nuanced view beyond simplistic collective condemnation. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). However, the chapter is mostly devoted to the Nazi’s euthanasia program and child murder for which there already exists an extensive, if gruesome, history.

Boyd, Julia and Angelika Patel, A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism (2022). And, coming from a country where the war always seems to have been won by English speaking people, it was refreshing to see how the French (aided by the Moroccans) liberated the village. Even technical education, something which Germany had once been very good at, was massively dumbed down in favour of tighter control. For most inhabitants, they feared war, disliked the fact that Nazi ideology changed their lives and often took the line of least resistance and hoped to come through unscathed. Those who had joined because they thought something drastic simply had to be done about Germany’s core problems, were focused on doing that and either didn’t spare a lot of time for persecuting scapegoats, or even quietly sabotaged the persecution whenever a safe opportunity arose.

At the same time, the authors made the readers aware that their writings presented a generic historical presentation of ordinary village life during these times.

There are a lot of tragic stories here, though there are reconstructions of the willing Nazi's there are also big questions about Good Germans and perhaps the unthinkable, Good Nazis.