A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany by Monica Black

A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

Monica Black

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced

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A revelatory counterhistory of postwar Germany, not as a reborn democracy but as a nation convulsed by apocalyptic visions, witchcraft trials, and supernatural obsessions In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events s...

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informative 66%
reflective 66%
dark 55%
challenging 44%
emotional 11%
mysterious 11%
tense 11%

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fast 11%

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