A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism

KATJA HOYER, THE TIMES (UK)

"A fascinating deep dive into one community as it experiences the rise and fall of Hitler ... Boyd... approaches her subjects with a sometimes uncomfortable degree of empathy. How should history judge the village mayor, for example? According to Boyd he was 'both a committed Nazi and a decent human being', and in her view this should not be seen as a contradiction in terms ... An utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances."