James Wyllie (1)
Auteur van Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
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James Wyllie is an author, award-winning screenwriter, and broad-caster. He is the author of Goering and Goering, The Time Traveler's Handbook, and Codebreakers: The True Story of the Secret Intelligence Team That Changed the Course of the First World War. He has worked on numerous films for the toon meer BBC and Film4 and has written for a number of TV drama series. toon minder
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This book looks at the prominent wives of the highest ranking Nazis and explores their lives, their thoughts and beliefs through diary entries and their own words, to give a glimpse into the massive denial and delusions that many of these women lived in about what their husbands did and what was going on. I found it interesting to see how many of the wives simply refused to acknowledge the sides of their husbands who were involved in the true horrors, insisting they were the kindest of men, and to see how easily some went along with the Jewish propaganda and evil, in spite of having friends in their past who were Jewish. Sometimes they helped those friends, clearly being able to disconnect them from the general Jewish population, but still being unable to see from their friendship how wrong and evil it was against all the other innocents who perished. It seems people can convince themselves of all kind of illogical things and live happily in cognitive dissonance as long as they are living in luxury. Even after the end, when forced to hear about the atrocities and their husband's role in them, many still refused to accept the true horrors of what happened and their hand in it. It was a surprisingly fast and interesting read.… (meer)