Question

Mention the name of the book that was written by Charlotte Beradt who secretly recorded the people’s dreams in her dairy and later published it as a book.
1. Villette
2. Inside the Third Reich
3. Third Reich of Dreams
4. The rise and fall of Third Reich

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Third Reich of Dreams

• Many saw the world through Nazi eyes, and spoke their mind in Nazi language. They felt hatred and anger surge inside them when they saw someone who looked like a Jew. They marked the houses of Jews and reported suspicious neighbours.
• They genuinely believed Nazism would bring prosperity and improve general well-being. But not every German was a Nazi.
• Many organised active resistance to Nazism, braving police repression and death. The large majority of Germans, however, were passive onlookers and apathetic witnesses.
• They were too scared to act, to differ, to protest. They preferred to look away.
• Charlotte Beradt secretly recorded people’s dreams in her diary and later published them in a highly disconcerting book called the Third Reich of Dreams.
• She describes how Jews themselves began believing in the Nazi stereotypes about them. They dreamt of their hooked noses, black hair and eyes, Jewish looks and body movements.
• The stereotypical images publicised in the Nazi press haunted the Jews. They troubled them even in their dreams. Jews died many deaths even before they reached the gas chamber.