Description: This is a groundbreaking new study of an overlooked area of Second World War History.
Review Quotes: "Stephenson's consideration of Nazism in terms of the conflict between rural precinct and urban neighborhood is extremely useful, and her discussion of the local men who left during the war and of the conscripted foreign workers, prisoners of war, and refugees from bombed-out north German cities who took their places is compelling and dramatic. Her narrative account of the hardships of 1943-1945 is unparalleled." -Peter Fritzsche, The Historian, 2009