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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
Written by Monica Black
Narrated by Erin Dion
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
This revelatory counter history of postwar Germany shows the country not as a reborn democracy but as a nation convulsed by apocalyptic visions, witchcraft, and the supernatural.
Author
Monica Black
Monica Black is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee and the author of Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany, which won the prestigious Fraenkel Prize, among other awards. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reader's German pronunciation was a bit dodgy. Interesting read. Illuminating. I came away feeling, though, that the surface was barely scratched. The rise of superstition in other postwar countries deserves comparison, too.