Summary of Lauren Young's Hitler's Girl

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#1 The Great War, which saw two and a half million Germans die and four million wounded, left a discernible line in the sand between the victors and the vanquished. For Germany, the vanquished, losing the war left the turmoil of economic uncertainty, unbridled violence, and boiling resentment.

#2 In the 1930s, the German government passed increasingly harsh laws against any perceived threats to the accelerating power of the Nazi machine. This included anti-Semitic art, which was exhibited in Munich in a show called Degenerate Art.

#3 The Weimar Republic, which was established following World War I, was a disaster for Germany, seeing two and a half million Germans die and four million wounded. The process of brutalization brought by the paramilitary groups resulted in street violence and the mass killing of civilians, as well as prominent German politicians and members of the Communist Party.

#4 The streets of German cities were marked by violence and disability following the Great War, while the streets of London were deceptively calm. The British Empire was beginning to feel the strain of maintaining a far-flung empire and the cost in human life and economic drain of fighting a total war.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000160

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The rise of the Nazi Party in Germany can be traced back to the legacy of the Great War, which left the country devastated and economically unstable. The struggle for survival was consigned not only to soldiers but to the generation of women left behind to support their hungry families.

#2

The decade of the 1930s in Germany made it clear who belonged and who didn’t. The German expressionists, including Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, and George Grosz, were exhibited in Munich in a show called Entartete Kunst or Degenerate Art in 1937.

#3

The processes of brutalization brought by the paramilitary groups of Weimar Germany resulted not only in street violence, but in the mass killing of civilians as well as prominent German politicians and members of the Communist Party.

#4

The streets of German cities were marked by violence and disability, while the streets of London were deceptively calm. The British upper classes