This book is an interesting approach to this period, with lots of emphasis and detail on what it was like to live in Germany during this period, and how living conditions and expectations provided the human matrix for the Hitlerites to achive total power. It’s one thing to be told that ‘the Great Depression gave the Nazis their chance”, and another to be exposed to the daily details of the poverty and chaos of Germany in the early 30s, and how a sense of crisis and desire for a way out saturated the entire society. It must be said that the audio producers/directors should be given notice, because the sometimes sloppy production distracts from the book – at one point and for an extended time the producers have made the odd choice of having every other paragraph (literally) read by what seems to be a different recording session, making it sound like poor Jim Seybert is two different people in every other paragraph, which I for one found very distracting. Such quibbles aside, this is a interesting listen for anyone interested in a more in-depth look at this period.