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This audiobook narrated by Olivia Vinall exposes the hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil
Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these "diaries of the night" in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them out of the country one by one.
Available again for the first time since its publication in the 1960s, this sensational book brings together this uniquely powerful dream record, offering a visceral understanding of how terror is internalized and how propaganda colonizes the imagination. After Beradt herself fled Germany for New York, she collected these dream accounts and began to trace the common symbols and themes that appeared in the collective unconscious of a traumatized nation. The fear of dictatorship was ever-present. Dreams of thought control, even the prohibition of dreaming itself, bore witness to the collapse of outer and inner worlds.
Now in a haunting new translation by Damion Searls,
The Third Reich of Dreams provides a raw, unfiltered, and prophetic look inside the experience of living through Hitler's terror.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length3 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byOlivia Vinall
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 29, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credit
8Chapter 6 - The Chorus, or "There's Nothing We Can Do"
2Foreword - by Dunya Mikhail
9Chapter 7 - Ideas Come to Life, or "The Dark-Haired in the Reich of the Blond"
3Chapter 1 - How This Book Came to Be
10Chapter 8 - Active Doers, or "You've Just Got to Decide You Want To"
4Chapter 2 - Remaking the Individual, or "Life without Walls"
11Chapter 9 - Veiled Wishes, or "Destination -"
5Chapter 3 - Bureaucratic Atrocity Stories, or "I Don't Enjoy Anything Anymore"
12Chapter 10 - Undisguised Wishes, or "He's the Man We Want with Us"
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6Chapter 4 - The Everyday Life of Nighttime, or "So That I Wouldn't Understand Myself "
13Chapter 11 - Jewish Dreamers, or "I'll Make Way for the Trash If Needed"
7Chapter 5 - The Non-Hero, or "Said Not a Word"
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