How Long to Read Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times

How Long Does it Take to Read Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times by Andrew Stuart Bergerson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Hildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times is a carefully drawn account of how townspeople went about their lives and reacted to events during the Nazi era. Andrew Stuart Bergerson argues that ordinary Germans did in fact make Germany and Europe more fascist, more racist, and more modern during the 1930s, but they disguised their involvement behind a pre-existing veil of normalcy. Bergerson details a way of being, believing, and behaving by which "ordinary Germans" imagined their powerlessness and absence of responsibility even as they collaborated in the Nazi revolution. He builds his story on research that includes anecdotes of everyday life collected systematically from newspapers, literature, photography, personal documents, public records, and especially extensive interviews with a representative sample of residents born between 1900 and 1930. The book considers the actual customs and experiences of friendship and neighborliness in a German town before, during, and after the Third Reich. By analyzing the customs of conviviality in interwar Hildesheim, and the culture of normalcy these customs invoked, Bergerson aims to help us better understand how ordinary Germans transformed "neighbors" into "Jews" or "Aryans."

How long is Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times?

Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times by Andrew Stuart Bergerson is 348 pages long, and a total of 89,784 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times aloud.

What Reading Level is Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times?

Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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