The Third Reich of Dreams

The Nightmares of a Nation
The hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil.

This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian stateor is worried theyre about to find out.Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth

The hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil

Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these diaries of the night in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them