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A Village in the Third Reich

took place · 9 Oct 2026

Ev. Reformierte Gemeinde, Göttingen, Germany

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A Village in the Third Reich — Ev. Reformierte Gemeinde, Göttingen
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How ideology penetrated life and changed it

Julia Boyd and Angelika Patel examine the Allgäu village of Oberstdorf in their narrative non-fiction book "A Village in the Third Reich" (Hogrefe 2026). Drawing on archival materials, letters, interviews, and memoirs, they create an intimate portrait of Germany under Adolf Hitler - from the perspective of villagers, where the grand becomes visible in the small.

At the book premiere, Angelika Patel speaks with Cornelia Zetzsche about the mechanisms of this contemptuous ideology - and about the question the book inevitably raises: What would I have done?