Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century, by Konrad H. Jarausch

Book of the week: memoirs of the Weimar generation are formed into a powerful social history, writes Hester Vaizey

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June 21, 2018

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June 21, 2018

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