ebooks The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture (Rewriting Histories) by J. William Harris in History

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What if you found out that your grandfather had been a Nazi SS officer? This is the confession that Martin Davidson received from his mother upon the death of demanding; magnetic grandfather Bruno Langbehn. The Perfect Nazi is Davidson's exploration of his family's darkest secret.As Davidson dove into his research; drawing on an astonishing cache of personal documents as well as eyewitness accounts of this historical period; he learned that Bruno's story moved lock-step in time with the rise and fall of the Nazi party: from his upbringing in a fiercely military environment amid the aftermath of World War I; to his joining the Nazi party in 1926 at the age of nineteen; more than six years before Hitler came to power; to his postwar involvement with the Werewolves; the gang of SS stalwarts who vowed to keep on after the defeat of Nazism.Davidson realized that his grandfather was in many ways the "perfect Nazi;" his individual experiences emblematic of the generation of Germans who would plunge the world into such darkness. But he also realized that every fact he uncovered was a terrible truth he himself would have to come to terms with...