{"id":2752,"date":"2021-01-13T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/dark-times\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:33:53","slug":"dark-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/dark-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Readings for Dark Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">When the light of liberty was extinguished in Germany 1933-1945, many escaped to America.&#0160; But when the light of liberty is extinguished here, there will be no place left to go.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">What was it like to live in the Third Reich?&#0160; What can we learn that may be of use in the present darkness? I come back again and again to the following four.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Theodor Haecker, <em>Journal in the Night<\/em>, tr. A Dru, Pantheon, 1950.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Paul Roubiczek, <em>Across the Abyss: Diary Entries for the Year 1939-1940<\/em>, tr. George Bird, Cambridge UP, 1982.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Sebastian Haffner, <em>Defying Hitler: A Memoir<\/em>, tr. O. Pretzel, Picador, 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Milton Mayer, <em>They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45<\/em>, The University of Chicago Press, 1955, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/haecker-theodor\/\">Theodor Haecker<\/a> entries<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the light of liberty was extinguished in Germany 1933-1945, many escaped to America.&#0160; But when the light of liberty is extinguished here, there will be no place left to go.&#0160;&#0160; What was it like to live in the Third Reich?&#0160; What can we learn that may be of use in the present darkness? I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/dark-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Readings for Dark Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,583,199,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia","category-biography","category-history","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}