SMITH, Howard K. - Last Train from Berlin - (1942 Hardcover with interesting bookplate)

Book is still in a good condition - An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War - A rather interesting bookplate of the previous owner inside - Used to belong to one of the Mertins family that lived on the Gochaganas farm near Winhoek - I believe they bred horses - Now a very expensive Luxury Lodge (This old aunty would love to be sponsered there for a week)  Due to interest the book was republished in paperbck in 2001.   >>>   The memoirs of one of America's most distinguished correspondents.  Howard K. Smith worked as a young reporter in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power, and for the first two years of the Second World War.  Finally granted a visa to leave the country--coincidentally on December 7th, 1941--he wrote everything censors had forbidden about the physical, emotional, and psychological manipulation of the German people by Hitler, Goebbels, and their lackeys. His personal experiences under difficult circumstances are extraordinary enough, but his descriptions of people forced to join the war, compulsory Nazi Youth groups, and of the German high command read like a chilling thriller.   >>>     Ironic how much America's current Tea Baggers resemble the Nazis. The plutocracy underlying Hitler's rise to power is uncannily echoed as the very wealthiest are more than willing to destroy their country for more profit.   (Goodreads)     * Word War II *