Or go home.' By the end of the war, the devastation of Berlin was witnessed by Norwegian journalist Theo Findahl: the city was reduced to 'ruins, burned buildings, death, and destruction'. The structure which Boyd has used, focusing on different groups of people, and different reasons they had for visiting Germany between the wars, is so effective.

In 1937, after four months there, Beckett noted in his diary: 'Soon I shall really begin to puke. Travellers in the Third Reich is a considered and measured work of non-fiction. Julia Boyd is the author of Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People, the Sunday Times top three bestseller and. Later she recalled his 'hypnotic' eyes: 'Only in the mad burning eyes could one see the terrible future of Germany.' Virginia Woolf, who drove across Germany en route for Italy in 1935, was appalled by the antisemitic propaganda and the 'stupid mass feeling'. The 24-year-old Martha Dodd, daughter of the American ambassador, met Hitler in 1933. A much ignored aspect of life during the Reich was that foreign visitors often came to visit. Attracted by the scenery, the food, the culture. Beginning in 1933, when Hitler had just become chancellor, this book reveals how Nazi Germany was seen through foreign eyes: by students, such as Shi Min from China by those on academic scholarships, such as Jean-Paul Sartre or by people there to learn the language, like Samuel Beckett. A very impressive book published in 2017 by Julia Boyd provides a way to put the reader inside the evolution of the 1930s in Germany via providing interpretations year by year of the 1930s by a wide range of travelers to the Third Reich. During the 1920s and 1930s, German tourism was booming, particularly among Americans and the British. A n anthology of travel writing about Nazi Germany doesn't sound very promising, but the well-chosen extracts in this collection are both powerful and poignant.

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