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Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Livres

    Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen était un auteur allemand dont les écrits de jeunesse comprenaient des histoires d'aventure pour enfants. Tout au long des années 1920 et 1930, il fut un romancier prolifique, dont nombre d'œuvres furent adaptées au cinéma. Si beaucoup de ses livres furent interdits par les nazis, d'autres ne furent publiés que des années après sa mort. Aujourd'hui, sa contribution la plus reconnue est son journal retraçant la vie sous le régime nazi, un régime auquel il s'opposa avec véhémence.

    Diary of a man in despair

    • Diary of a man in despair

      • 220pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author’s own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, “one of the most important documents of the Hitler period” but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.

      Diary of a man in despair
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