The clay idol

The silence of the victims and perpetrators 1939 - 1945

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The big golden Gotz is known from the Bible. The Götz in the book Daniel reminds of the national socialism … a big, high and very brilliant picture, which was terrible to look at! But the crowd sees only the golden face and rejoices in the honoring poor, but she does not know what the iron thighs have already smashed and she does not suspect that he stands on clay feet and that the stone is already rolling. Everyone found their own way at that time and believed that it served the fatherland. In three consecutive books will be shown how the people of the civilian population lived between 1939 and 1945, what they thought and how they found their way under National Socialism. Diary entries, descriptions of the escape from Silesia are described and the nonsensical fight on the last front in southern Germany, by fanatical officers, the child soldiers sent to death. These contemporary witness documents have been revised and supplemented with today’s knowledge. Always with the basic idea, what did the civilian population really know about terror, murders and expulsion and what could they do about it – if they wanted to – or had the courage to resist.