A German Love Story

So profound have been the effects of Germany's two amazing attempts to gain for itself "Lebensraum", and domination over other "races" that almost no storycan be written about that land or its people without including these tragedies. Author Rolf Hochhuth offers a glimpse into the personalities and characters of individuals as well as the collective persona Of Germany. From the simple folk of the small Southwestern German town of Brombach ,Pauline, the greengrocer, her Polish lover Stani, Hitler, his personal henchmen, and those who dared not oppose them. The intellect and character of Churchill, Bismarck and other key figures in the horrible game. He interviews survivors and perpetrators, and examines the depths mental illness that gripped a nation and ruined millions of lives beyond the obvious victims.From this book, not in history classes, I have learned that Poland lost more citizens than any other nation in world war II, also of that nation's critical, yet uncelebrated contbutions to the demise of the third reich. Well worth reading.