{"product_id":"the-third-reich-of-dreams-the-nightmares-of-a-nation-hardcover","title":"The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Beradt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDunya Mikhail\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlotte 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAvailable 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow in a haunting new translation by Damion Searls and with an incisive foreword by Dunya Mikhail, \u003ci\u003eThe Third Reich of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e provides a raw, unfiltered, and prophetic look inside the experience of living through Hitler's terror.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Beradt\u003c\/b\u003e (1907-1986) was a Jewish journalist and communist activist based in Berlin during the Third Reich. She fled to New York in 1939 as a refugee, creating a gathering place for other German ?migr?s, including Hannah Arendt. \u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator and writer whose translation of Jon Fosse's novel \u003ci\u003eA New Name\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.\u003cb\u003e Dunya Mikhail\u003c\/b\u003e is an Iraqi American poet whose books include \u003ci\u003eThe War Works Hard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978235674925,"sku":"9780691243511","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/4FLwMW5RWd9780691243511.webp?v=1775801184","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-third-reich-of-dreams-the-nightmares-of-a-nation-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}