Change In Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler

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Change can be scary. This we know, but when change happens to rapidly and too rapidly, change can destroy a nation from the inside out. Especially when the people who come into power have horrible intents. How do the people react? Do they fight it? Or do they simply give in? This is what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Sebastian Haffner (Raimund Pretzel) was born in December 1907 in Berlin. In 1938 Haffner and his fiancée move to Nazi Germany, he talks about the politics in Germany and the rise of the Nazi Party in his 1939 memoir Defying Hitler. In the book, Haffner criticizes the change in Germany. Haffner’s memoir wasn’t published until 2000, a year after his death by his son. If this book was published back when Haffner