Description: A stirring true story of the journalists who dared to oppose Hitler--and the campaign waged against them.
After serving in the First World War, Adolf Hitler encountered a serious obstacle to his plotting for power when the Munich Post, drawing on sources within the Nazi Party, began tracking the corruption and dark dreams of his inner circle. With leaked documents from Hitler's political rivals, who were shocked by his violent rhetoric and fearing the worst, the Post battled Hitler for ownership of the truth. After starting with libel lawsuits and anti-press propaganda and proceeding to assaults on editors at the Post, the Nazis finally resorted to raiding the paper's offices, shutting production down, and rounding up the staff. Enemy of the People brilliantly captures the dangerous times of Germany's Weimar era and the courage of the free press--people driven to speak louder than the enemy himself.Brief description: Terrence Petty was an Associated Press journalist for thirty-five years. Retired since 2017, he was based in Bonn from 1987 to 1997, where he covered German and European affairs, traveling between West and East Germany during the Cold War. During the late 1980s and 1990s, from the pro-democracy movement and reunification to neo-Nazi violence and the fiftieth-anniversary ceremonies at Dachau and Buchenwald, he filed extensively from the country. From 1999 to 2017 he managed the AP's news operation in Oregon. Before joining the AP, Petty worked for newspapers in Vermont and upstate New York. Raised in Fair Haven, Vermont, he graduated from the University of Vermont in 1974 with a BA in history. Petty and his wife, Christina, live in Portland with their son, Tristan.