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The true story of a Jewish reporter who became an intimate witness to the rise of Nazism in Germany. Fromm wrote a social column for a liberal Berlin newspaper. Attending luncheons, teas & dinners during the 1930s, she met everybody of importance, including von Hindenberg, Franz von Papen, Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Leni Riefenstahl, & other political & social figures. In this secret journal, smuggled out piecemeal before she left Germany, Fromm describes her experiences & conversations with this cast of characters that would soon play shocking roles in Hitler's Third Reich. Her diary is a classic social & historical testament.
- Sales Rank: #1090978 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Birch Lane Press
- Published on: 1990-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 338 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Amazon.com Review
As a Berlin social reporter in the years leading up to WWII, Bella Fromm mingled with some of the most important and influential members of Hitler's rising Third Reich. Given the Nazis' appreciation for propaganda, this fact alone would be unremarkable, but her writings take on special interest when coupled with the knowledge that she received such access while openly proclaiming her own Jewish background and anti-Nazi sympathies. As she dutifully reported on the countless dinners, galas, and cultural events attended by German high society, Fromm also kept a secret diary that chronicled the seemingly inexplicable growth and horrifying consequences of National Socialism: "It's not curious that all this is beginning to make me feel like a stranger in my own country, that I am beginning to be aware of a feeling of hostility...."
Fearing for her life, Fromm fled Germany in 1938, smuggling her incriminating diary out in separate parcels before she left. First published in 1943, these recollections wear the patina of an Allied effort at public relations, but the prescient accuracy of her dire predictions is intriguing nonetheless. And, while invariably placing herself in the shining glow of absolute moral and ethical integrity, her insightful observations offer an interesting record of the many actions--both heroic and cowardly--she witnessed during this particularly ugly period of mass hysteria. --George Laney
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
But Is It True?
By Irene R.
A good read, but there is controversy over whether she actually wrote this as a diary at the time these events occurred or whether she wrote the "diary" in the US years after the fact and based the book on her memory and on events she later read in the press. Apparently, some of her dates are erroneous but match the dates printed in newspaper articles. Did her close friend in Nazi circles actually exist? To my knowledge, he has not been identified. In retrospect, it's not clear how the diary was smuggled out if it were, indeed, smuggled out. But it's a fascinating read, and Bella Fromm did travel in high political circles. Eric Larsen mentions her in his book "In the Garden of Beasts." Read it and take it with a grain of salt.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By Kindle Customer
My husband is reading it now and loves it. He usually reads pure, dry History.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
otherworldly
By DB
imagine a fashion reporter being in the middle of the nazi takeover.
its like 'sex and the city' crossed with a horror movie.
what can i say. a gossip hound who instead of reporting on
stars and celebrities and politicians... revealing their foibles, she instead gives us the gossip on the nazi leaders.
the hypocrisy of their attitudes and philosophy, stands out
like green on yellow. if jon stewart had something to say
about the nazis he might have pointed out the things that
Bella did.
for example, she describes over and over the nazis ability
to appreciate art, but they just dont seem to get it.
they like the look of it, the feeling of being there, but
it doesnt raise anything in them... or does it?
one time, hitler is watching a performance, and he says
'this fellow is wonderful, pity he is a jew'. doesnt
he have jews working for him?
the strangest thing is when she meets hitler. he compliments
her, and she secretly wonders what hed think if only he knew.
she observes these people, goering,
hitler himself, the way youd find ordinary people described
in other books. hitler and the others are not towering figures
they are not titans of anything, she cuts them down
with a few comments about their demeanor or their social
skills, or lack thereof.
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the experience of a german citizen , relatively well off,
watching the nazis slowly take over, watching her world
slowly sour and rot around her, is amazing...
there is nothing abstract about the take over, no dates
and facts dryly presented as a history book.
no instead one of the young men workers at her office
gets caught up in the propaganda, joins the SS, and ends
up being murdered because he talked too much about
what they were doing, the evil of their tactics.
imagine the silliest american drama/comedy set in the editorial
offices of the socialite section of a newspaper, then
throw in the take over by the nazis, people disappearing,
and our hero, a normal writer, an unassuming reporter...
her acts of defiance are to help dozens of people escape
by using her social and political connections. and eventually
she has to escape herself, complete with nazi assasins on
her tail, where she finds a new life in america,
starting at the bottom of the economic ladder and trying
to work her way back to normalcy.
i only wish there were a movie of it.
note: i have also read a journal article challenging
one of the facts of the book, IE implying that she may
have made some things up. i can believe it... the story
does have parts that are almost too good to be true.
but if one reconsidered the book entire as a fictional work, then
it would stand by itself as a good work of art, in my humble opinion.
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