Oliver Hilmes Schattenzeit: Rar

The narrative's emotional anchor is the tragic fate of , a 26-year-old piano prodigy. During a private visit in March 1943, Kreiten remarked that Germany had lost the war and called Hitler "mentally ill". Denounced by a family friend, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death by the notorious judge Roland Freisler. He was executed just six months after his unguarded comment. A Mosaical Portrait of 1943

In his acclaimed work, (Days of Darkness), historian Oliver Hilmes presents a chilling, mosaic-like portrait of life in Nazi Germany during a pivotal year of the Second World War. The Central Tragedy Oliver Hilmes Schattenzeit rar

While cities lay in ruins and the "machinery of destruction" operated at full capacity, citizens still crowded into cinemas to watch Hans Albers in Münchhausen or distracted themselves in dance halls. The narrative's emotional anchor is the tragic fate