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SUMMARY:Informed Community Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Informed Community Book Club\, a space 
 dedicated to exploring and discussing pertinent social\, economic\, and 
 political issues. If you are interested in participating in our democratic 
 institutions or just making friends\, join us! \n\nNovember's book will be 
 They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer.\n\nFrom the publisher's 
 website:\n\n“When this book was first published it received some 
 attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was 
 finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench 
 at Nuremberg.”\n \nThat’s Milton Mayer\, writing in a foreword to the 
 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He’s right about the 
 critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. 
 General readers may have been slower to take notice\, but over time they 
 did—what we’ve seen over decades is that any time people\, across the 
 political spectrum\, start to feel that freedom is threatened\, the book 
 experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest.\n \nThey Thought They Were 
 Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of 
 fascism in Germany. Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their 
 lives from 1933-45\, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he 
 lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the 
 University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he 
 disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” “These ten men were not men of 
 distinction\,” Mayer noted\, but they had been members of the Nazi 
 Party\; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions 
 with them of Nazism\, the rise of the Reich\, and mass complicity with evil 
 became the backbone of this book\, an indictment of the ordinary German 
 that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend 
 that our moment\, our society\, our country are fundamentally 
 immune.\n\nThe discussion will be hosted by former Los Gatos Planning 
 Commissioner and current president of the Los Gatos Anti-Racism Coalition 
 Jeff Suzuki.
LOCATION:Conference Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Jenn Laredo":MAILTO:jlaredo@losgatosca.gov
CATEGORIES:Adult, Book Club
CONTACT;CN="Jenn Laredo":MAILTO:jlaredo@losgatosca.gov
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