Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

4 reviews

jos_reads2's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, War, and Deportation

moehrenfeld's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Homophobia

stormblessedt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.75

I’ve had this book for 10 years. I’ve attempted it a couple of times, abandoned it, then attempted it again. It took me resigning from my job and a month and spare to actually finish it.

But you know what, it’s worth it. So, so worth it.

Sometimes the text gets so dark and disturbing that I had to stop and cry. There are times I scoff with disbelief at how much they let Hitler get away before they tried to put a stop to him… but then remembered I live in the Philippines, a country which elected the son of a former dictator and has continuously let that family get away with murder (literally)

“Perhaps it will help too if the erring governments and the wondering people of this world will remember the dark night of Nazi terror and genocide that almost engulfed our world and that is the subject of this book. Remembrance of the past helps us to understand the present.” - William Shirer, 1990

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, and War

fclancy93's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Homophobia and Incest

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

A product of it's time but through and enlightening. I'm glad I read this book and it certainly had compelling prose but like many books that cover humanity at it's most abhorrent, I can't say that I enjoyed it.