Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama View Post
Catrin, thanks! That's definitely on my reading list.

My grandmother was in Germany during Hitler and had to escape to America. She wasn't Jewish or any other minority - she just wasn't one of Hitler's chosen people. But, she still secretly believed that Hitler was right and carried many prejudices to her grave. Different times.
They were indeed very different times, and that is another thing that becomes clear in this book. We "know" that there was more antisemitism in this country at that point in the 20th century, but reading this really brings that home. The focus is on Germany, but of course there were his interactions with the "folks back home", and even Dobb himself was on the anti-Jewish side of things - but he didn't agree with the methods the Germans used. Different times indeed.