Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht. Short summary

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After the representatives of the NSDAP party came to power, the Third Reich was proclaimed. However, the Nazis built their own empire solely on fear and hatred.

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Germany’s defeat in World War I was very difficult. According to the results of the peace agreement, the German state was deprived of a decent army, deprived of some territories and obliged to pay huge sums of money to the victors. Within the country, revolutionaries raged, wanting to overthrow the tsarist regime and then the republic. Amid the general chaos, the representatives of the NSDAP came to power, promising people to restore the former glory of their homeland and establish order inside the country.

Thus in 1933 was the starting point of a new era in the history of Germany, which began with the burning of books undesirable to the top leadership and a dialogue between two SS officers who discussed the possibility of the unity of the nation and wandered into the neighborhood where the next destruction of literature took place. In Breslau, the storm troopers go to the address of a man who dared to criticize the current regime, while in Berlin, a green storm trooper, who has mastered the statutory salute, prepares to go on a night sweep of opponents of authority.