2/5

Interesting but not riveting, I respect the authors intervention into how the coercion Nazi state is taught but didn’t find much of this to be terribly ground breaking. The conflicts with the church, parents and the euthanasia question are all compelling examples of how the autocracy was sold to the people but don’t give much character to the lived experience of those who endured this. That being said I think this is an instructive book about authoritarianism more generally – one does not simply create the totalitarian state out of thin air.