{"product_id":"the-third-reich-of-dreams-the-nightmares-of-a-nation","title":"The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Charlotte Beradt \u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Damion Searls\u003cbr\u003ePreface by Dunya Mikhail \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Beradt offers us not a complex hermeneutics of totalitarianism but rather a quite straight forward picture of the psychological effects of propaganda and manipulation upon a populace. . . . How does one become a totalitarian subject? What—aside from the threat of violence—are the necessary conditions? These are questions Beradt’s dreaming people daren’t ask themselves in the cold light of day, but the queries reappear under cover of night.\" —Zadie Smith, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A strange, enthralling book. . . . The Third Reich of Dreams is a collective diary, a witness account hauled out of a nation’s shadows and into forensic light.\" —Mireille Juchau, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow in a haunting new translation by Damion Searls and with an incisive foreword by Dunya Mikhail, \u003cem\u003eThe Third Reich of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e provides a raw, unfiltered, and prophetic look inside the experience of living through Hitler’s terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e152 pages\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton University Press, 2025     \u003cbr\u003e5.5 x 8.5 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780691243511\u003cbr\u003eHistory \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53622280847528,"sku":"9780691243511","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Beradt_Charlotte_The-Third-Reich-of-Dreams_The-Nightmares-of-a-Nation.jpg?v=1756483415","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-third-reich-of-dreams-the-nightmares-of-a-nation","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}