5 comments about Into the Darkness.

1. Twentieth-century America's most perceptive, influential, and prophetic writer on race -- Lothrop Stoddard -- spent four months in late 1939-early 1940 covering National Socialist Germany, as its leaders and its people girded for total war. Stoddard criss-crossed the Third Reich to observe nearly every aspect of its political, social, economic, and military life, and he talked with men and women from all walks of life, from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels to taxi drivers and chambermaids. The result -- Into the Darkness -- is not only a classic of World War II reportage, but a unique evaluation of Germany's National Socialist experiment. For Stoddard was no ordinary journalist. A Harvard Ph.D in history, the author of The Rising Tide of Color and other works that played a key role in the enactment of America's 1924 immigration act, fluent in German and deeply versed in European politics and culture, Stoddard brought to Into the Darkness a sophistication and a sympathy impossible for William Shirer and a myriad of other journalistic hacks. To be sure, the New England Yankee Stoddard was no supporter of the Hitler dictatorship, but he was deeply interested in National Socialist policies, above all in the social and the racial sphere. Reading Into the Darkness brings you to hearings before a German eugenics court, to an ancestral farm in Westphalia, to the headquarters of the National Labor Service, to German markets, factories, medical clinics, and welfare offices, as keenly observed and analyzed by Stoddard. You'll read, too, of Stoddard's conversations with German policy makers in all fields: Hans F. K. Guenther and Fritz Lenz on race and eugenics; Walther Darré on agriculture; Robert Ley on labor; Gertrud Scholz-Klink on women in the Third Reich; General Alexander Löhr on the Luftwaffe's Polish campaign, as well as Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and many other leaders. And you'll travel with Stoddard to Slovakia, where he interviews Monsignor Tiso, the national leader later put to death by the Communists, and to Hungary, where the Magyars, still at peace, gaze apprehensively at Soviet Russia. Into the Darkness (so named from the mandatory air-defense blackout that Stoddard found so vexing) shines a torch of sanity and truth against the vituperation of all things National Socialist that has been practically obligatory for the past sixty years. Knowledgeable, urbane, skeptical, and above all fair, Stoddard's book is a unique, an indispensable historical document, a time capsule for truth, and a stimulating page-turner for everyone interested in the Third Reich and the German people.



2. Finally a great book on 3rd Reich from an unbiased observer. Some of the chapters provided excellent insight into everyday life in Germany. Reminds us that Americans would never wish to live in that manner, but given the circumstances the Germans did their best to rebuild a society shattered by war, revolution, and economic disaster. It raises the question of what might have happened if the National Socialist experiment in Germany could've continued.



3. This book has been debunked and exposed to be a complete lie. Funny how people see what they want in writings yet completely deny the facts when presented with them. It sounds all well and good but researching the material for oneself will reveal that this is just another bunch of propaganda in the overflowing world of 'holocaust' suffering.



4. Perhaps some of Stoddard's other books, theories or writings have been debunked or refuted - but I can't find any basis for the statement below regarding "Into The Darkness" that "This book has been debunked as a lie". Therefore, I am buying this book.



5. I'm an agronomist and I live in Brazil.I like to read books.I tried to read this book, here in Brazil.This book is available, for free reading on internet.
   This book has some parts with a little use.
   The core of this book is pure trash.The author, an once respected american eugenicist tells, about nazi Germany under war.There's even an entire chapter about the author's interview, with Adolf Hitler himself.
   The only value of this book is to see, how was Germany at the beggining of World War II.Even about this subject, this book is weak.
   To be an eugenicist was to be a respectable person,in USA, at least before Third Reich.Many famous americans such as Dr. Morris Fishbein ( Jew and A.M.A.'s president), Alexander Graham Bell (Jew), Wilbur and Orville Wrigh(The Wright Brothers) were famous and very proundly and respectable eugenicists.In 1935, Dr. Morris Fishbein (a jew) said "[NAZI] Germay is perhaps, the most PROGRESSIVE nation about genetic problems".
   
   Writen in a time, when eugenics becaming to be(as ever was), a despicable godless religion or a pseudo-science and the american eugenicists themselves changing his titles to neo-malthusianists or ecologists, this book is almost pure garbage.

2 comments about Deathly Still: Pictures of Concentration Camps.

1. Hi!Those are pictures that speak.It makes you think.It is very sad...



2. This is a wonderful book for any collection. Haunting...Thought Provoking...quite beautiful and very, very sad!!!

4 comments about Michelin Red Guide 2007 Deutschland: Hotels & Restaurants (Michelin Red Guides).

1. Since this was advertised along with the Green Guide to Germany, I assumed the Red Guide would be in English. Wrong. It is in German. You would think that they would have mentioned that. But there still may be some useful information there.



2. Unfortunately, it was not advertised that the Red Guide is in German and not English and now I have it and can't understand a word of it. Amazon should have clearly indicated this to be the case in its advertisement.



3. I've used the Michelin Red Guide on several occasions and have found their descriptions and pricing to be totally accurate. I am hoping that is still the same. The book is arranged conveniently with good maps and directions and I have found it to be very useful when planning a major trip.



4. In principle is a book for tourists in general, but it was written in german. Only for german tourists.

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3 comments about Race to the Moon: America's Duel with the Soviets.

1. Race to the Moon is primarily an action/adventure/spy story. Thing is, this story is true. Fascinating accounts of the German development of rockets, their use in WWII, the exciting accounts of the United States' efforts to aquire this technology at the end of the war, and the desire of von Braun and his team to find the Americans. Intresting accounts of von Braun and team's early expereiences in the U.S. during the late 40's and 50's. However, don't expect this book to teach you much about the Soviet effort, it is glossed over. The book is also light on the technology of the US/Soviet space race. For example, on page three, it has first man in spce Yuri Garagrin orbiting the earth for four and a half days! On page 179, it has the entire Apollo spacecraft stack injected into orbit by the first stage! (I'll bet von Braun didn't know he could leave the second stage off.) And a picture of a Saturn 1B is misidentified as a Saturn V. With these kinds of obvious errors, it makes me wonder what other errors are in this book. For better sources of inforamation on Apollo try A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, for the Soviet story try Korolev by James Harford.



2. Fascinating and well told story from the conception of space travel in the 1930s to the Moon landing. Much more to the story than you would imagine. Very intriguing and exciting story. A must read for any WWII historian.



3. This book, written by a journalist who has made a career out of writing World War II adventures, is neither about the race to the Moon nor the U.S. rivalry with the U.S.S.R. The majority of it is, instead, about the World War II efforts of the German rocket team under Wernher von Braun at Peenemunde, its wartime exploits, its surrender to American forces in 1945, and only tangentially about its post-war activities in the United States. Only 6 of 24 chapters actually deal with Project Apollo, and none of the book goes beyond the popular literature on either the Germans or Apollo. Your time would be better used reading any number of other books on Apollo, especially "...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age," by Walter A. McDougall, which received the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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