A Short Thousand Years

A Short Thousand Years A Childhood in the Third Reich Author:Robert Hallmann Language:English Format:Hardcover Dimensions:6.15" x 9.25" Pages:256 Photos:221 Publisher:Fonthill Media ISBN:9781781557358 Item No. 9781781557358 In 1933 Germany became a dictatorship under the Great War veteran Adolf Hitler. He pulled the country out of depression and set it to work, reducing unemployment by undertaking extensive public works and building the first autoroutes in the world. He then resumed conscription and rearmament. All opposition had been eliminated and all power centered in that one man, whose boasted promise was a German Empire that would last ‘a Thousand Years.’The author was born in 1935. Ten years later millions had died, much of the continent lay in ruins, his country was shamed and the ‘thousand years’ came to a fiery end.Others experienced worse, but for a ten-year-old with explosions all about him and with