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Book Review of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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A taste of the tipping point when Germany still had ample opportunity to fight back the sadistic murdering Nazis. The tension of the book depends so much on knowing what will become and wanting to scream to the diplomats in Berlin, "wake up!" My only frustration was that I wish Larson had taken a little more time explaining the background of the compromise Hindenburg had made to put Hitler in as Chancellor in the first place. Guess I will have to research that background myself elsewhere.